Questioning Quotes

One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

If you want the answer—ask the question.

People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist.

I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serve by exercising prudence!

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals - or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms

Let's fall in love and screw up our lives even more?

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

Self-questioning is the road to personal liberation and spiritual enlightenment. Self-questioning spurs the mind to consider new opportunities to arrive at truth.

Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.

A set of excellent questions themselves is perhaps like a poem, both philosophical and intellectual.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

What if?..What if I am all to see?What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everydayAnd there is no better way?What then?

Curiosity fueled our determination to keep questioning.

As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art?

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

I teach what compels us to question our reality

The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it

To question is to grow.

Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your life.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand.

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.

Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.

We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

I don’t believe that, " I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. "I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...

Before you wonder ‘Am I doing things right?’ ask yourself, ‘Am I doing the right things?

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Running wild in a field of exclamations, chasing question marks

He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)

What is the essence of having a brain if you cannot question the things you hear or see?

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything.

If you have never truly questioned what you believe, I would question whether you truly believe it.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.