Quotes about Questioning
What kind of 'changing world', Alvah? Changing to what? From what? Who's doing the changing?
— Ayn Rand
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
— Barack Obama
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
— Stephen Covey
T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.
— Joseph Brodsky
They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
— Joseph Heller
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough. Not that I don't want to question. Ach, I surely do. But in the three years since Benuel's death, I've learned that peace comes with that kind of givin' up . . . and, not to boast, but my faith has grown because of it, too.
— Beverly Lewis
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.
— Philip Yancey
God is more than an emotional experience. Doubts are normal, Grant. There's nothing wrong with examining your faith." "I didn't just examine it, I think I lost it." "I've felt that way before but God's faithfulness isn't dependent on you.
— Hannah Alexander
Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!
— Joel Osteen
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
— Aristotle
I keep thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens and cry "Why?" And I imagine him. I imagine him listening. I picture his eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away a tear. And although he may offer no answer, although he may solve no dilemma, although the question may freeze painfully in midair, he who also was once alone, understands.
— Max Lucado