Questioning Quotes

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

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

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

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

Before I arrived here [ Borussia Dortmund], a lot of people were questioning about whether I could ever play as a striker, that I was a guy who could only run down the wing quickly.

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

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

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

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

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

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

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

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?

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

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

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

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.

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

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

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

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

If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake.