Best 167 quotes in «questioning quotes» category

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

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!

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.

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 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.

Through my questions, you will learn to teach yourselves.

To question is to grow.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

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

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.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

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.

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

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?

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders.

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.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

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.

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

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

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

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