Best 167 quotes in «questioning quotes» category

Tada sam počeo postavljati pitanja o tome što je volja, gdje je duša, čime se hrani misao i je li i ona, misao, također imenica iz skupine mislenih imenica, mogu li glagoli napadati, a ako mogu, jesu li predmet njihova napada moje misli ili moji organi..., i na koncu, ako mogu zamisliti svoje unutarnje organe, jesu li tada po postanku organi ispred misli ili je misao ta koja proizvodi moje tijelo?

TELL ME, WHEN WILL I HEAR WHAT IT MEANS TO EXIST FROM THE STARS?

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.

The art in question is much more about open communications.

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

The deterioration of individual thought has resulted in a morbidly dependent society that has lost its sense of personal responsibility and accountability. Society has devolved into a state of thoughtless stagnancy, accepting the tyrannical laws and deleterious social structures without question or reason. This is the downfall of the human race, and the roadblock to Divinity.

The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it, lady. I don't play at it.

The fabric of human life is woven with relationships. Once we thematize the importance of dialogue, the multiplicity of ongoing and created situations in which dialogical skills can be nurtured abound. As we have seen, this requires us to slow down and turn toward each other, having a clear sense of the relationship between our current footing in dialogue with one another and the future we are trying to create. The nurture of dialogical capacities is essential to human liberation.

The fool questions if the world is real; the wise question if their thoughts are.

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

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

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

The path between faith and understanding demands both obedience and inquiry. If Christianity is true, if it goes to the center of the universe and explains every stone and leaf the way we Christians think, then the more we search it out and explore it the more reasons we will have to be confident in that truth.

(...)the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be made to hush it up as impolitic for open discussion. If, however, experience has taught us anything it is that questions thus suppressed will sooner or later break out in undesirable and unprofitable forms.

There are probably no cases where there would be impossible to pose questions.

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

The spiritual energy of our time, as I've come to understand it, is not a rejection of the rational disciplines by which we've ordered our common life for many decades - law, politics, economics, science. It is, rather, a realization that these disciplines have a limited scope. They can't ask ultimate questions...they don't begin to tell us how to order our astonishments, what matters in life, what matters in a death, how to love, how we can be of service to each other. These are the kinds of questions religion arose to address and religions traditions are keepers of conversation across generations about them.

The sign of wisdom is to have more questions than answers.

The study of history should be a mind-altering encounter that leaves one forever unable to consider the social world without asking questions about where a claim comes from, who’s making it, and how time and place shape human behavior.

The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon and is later found false; the latter rejects sound answers altogether and hashes itself useless.

They question me everyday. There’s always bright lights and they give me medicine that’s supposed to make me tell the truth, but it doesn’t work on me. Or maybe it only works when I start talking, but I never do.

This is a hard question. But as women we have a right to ask the hard questions. The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.

To question is to think, act and create, so answers become thoughtful, actionable and creative.

Through my questions, you will learn to teach yourselves.

To question is to grow.

Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?

Why do you dwell on things that don’t matter when there are so many things that do?

Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?

We don't have to have all the answers and know everything. Life is about acknowledging the unknown and just living.

We often hear of someone saying, ‘So you don’t trust me’ or ‘Are you questioning my integrity?’ or ‘You don’t believe me.’ They get defensive and angry because someone questions their actions, and they think they are above being questioned or having to prove their trustworthiness. But none of us is above questioning.

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

What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?

When someone asks a question, don't assume they don't know the answer. Clever people will always test you.

When the questions receive an answer to its curiosity, there shouldn't be further questioning; otherwise, it creates and defines an absurdity.

What do you really want in life? This is a dangerous question because you may lose a great many years to find an answer! Don’t ask! Don’t waste your time! Life will give the answers of the questions you have not even asked!

What kind of person doesn't know whether her father was a king or a monster?

When you're playing at something and having fun, you don't stop to ask yourself why.

Wind is on fire" - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other!

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

You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that's what he loved really, at least in The Symposium.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

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

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

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.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

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

Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.