Questioning Quotes

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.

Believe what you like, but don't believe everything you read without questioning it.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

Be confident, and just do it. It's all about not questioning what everyone else is thinking, since they're probably looking to others to know what is or isn't cool.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.

I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.

You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

Ask with urgency and passion.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Respect authority while questioning it.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

Houllier couldn’t deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

Art is the questioning of culture

If you don't shut up, how can I answer your questions!

I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

I kept a lot of my thoughts inside myself. So, perhaps more than is normal, I'm always questioning my role as a writer. I'm always stopping and asking myself: Do I have the right to tell this story? Is it a story that deserves to be heard? And as for whether I think of myself as a Writer with a capital "W," I very much hope I never do.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.