Truth Seeking Quotes · Page 36

Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

— Barbara Corcoran

“Digital board directors with the right dose of “doubt” are real critical thinkers who can ask deep questions.”

— Pearl Zhu

“It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" --> Pretty Wittgenstein like.”

— Milan Kundera

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

— Twyla Tharp

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

— John C. Maxwell

“Questions are more true than answers : this is the beginning of wisdom”

— Vergere

“Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask.”

— Stephanie Mbida

“Well, the question is, what do you want to believe? Do you want to live in a world where things are possible,…

— Léna Roy

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

— Robert Cialdini

“His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I sort of expose the truth about common misconceptions, or you know, investigate why we do certain things culturally, why we have…

— Adam Conover

Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is…

— Gertrude Stein

“Ours is a world full of self-deceit, my friend. But it is at the same time a world full of sincere truth…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“Leading the Witness. Know the difference! Using questions to manipulate, coerce, or lead people in directions which are not in their best…

— Susan C. Young

There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of…

— Karen Marie Moning

A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose…

— Jon Ronson

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were…

— Nancy Pearcey

“The verbal tool of exploring mystery together is not confrontation or preaching but dialogue. We subject ourselves to the same questions we…

— Adam S. McHugh

In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest.…

— Elie Wiesel

“They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any…

— William Kingdon Clifford

To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.

— Anonymous

“Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent.”

— Thomas Hardy

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

— Alexander Payne

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in…

— Stanley Hauerwas

We are the mystery to each other waiting to be discovered, but we've got to ask the questions to find out what…

— Anonymous

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

— Jorge Ramos

You're asking me how not to doubt. Good question.My answer is, you can't. This is life

— Tariq Ramadan

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

— Pablo Picasso

“If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.”

— John McPhee

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.

— Emily Yoffe

When a person cant answer your question directly, probably the answer is too painful for you to know or too hard for…

— Ritu Ghatourey

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

— Albert Camus

“Why must you plague me with these questions in the middle of the night?”

— Winston Graham

If someone asks me a question, there might be a truthful answer and a correct answer.

— Tim Henman

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no…

— B. Traven