Quotes about Questioning

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

Are you sure?" asked the Savage. "Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death?

History is bunk.

Have we even begun to be Christians?

If I got down on my knees I thought, "Do I really believe? Whom am I praying to?" A terrible doubt came over me, and a sense of shame, and I wondered if I was praying because I was lonely, because I was unhappy.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.