Truth Seeking Quotes · Page 23

“Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked.”

— Robert Jordan

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

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“It has always been my belief that if you don’t ask the right questions, you won’t get the right answers.”

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

— Donald Miller

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

— Albert Camus

“When you ask the question differently, you look for answers in different places.”

— Steven D. Levitt

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less…

— Leonard Susskind

Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is…

— Saul Kripke

The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors.…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind…

— Charlie Huston

“A visceral attraction derived from the mystery in the stars. A harsh truth of human existence is searching for a universal answer…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?"…

— Anonymous

“Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition…

— Hans Selye

While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with…

— Grey Owl

“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men,…

— Peter L. Berger

“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks…

— Martin Heidegger

When you're bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first…

— Daniel Lubetzky

“For a long time I thought the object of the game was identifying the question, love versus freedom, Mandela vs Buthelezi, leave…

— Pam Houston

“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I…

— Alan W. Watts

Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of…

— Winifred Holtby

The question asked in order To save her life or take it The answer 'No' to avoid death The answer 'Yes' would…

— Anonymous

Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you…

— Sharon Kay Penman

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The right faith gives you power to live with questions you have no answers for.”

— Alin Sav

Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions

— Nateman

I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.

— Jacquetta Hawkes

“Emotions can get in the way of truth-seeking. People do not process information in a neutral way.”

— Cass R. Sunstein

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

— Jeremy Griffith

“The question isn't "is your novel good enough?" The question is: "Do you believe in it?”

— Giuseppe Bianco

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

— Bryant H. McGill

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

— Edward Norton

“It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.”

— Margaret Atwood

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

— Gene Wolfe

“Should you choose your questions more carefully, you may receive more satisfying answers.”

— Erin Morgenstern

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

— Leo Tolstoy

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

— Annabelle Selldorf

“Real truths, as opposed to imagined ones, are able to stand up to rigorous debate and questioning .”

— Jeffrey Small

In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?

— John C. Maxwell