Questioning Mindset Quotes

The scientist … creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity … is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers

Change your habitual questions and change your destiny!

My family called me the 'why kid' growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

Some will say that I have an issue with authority, but I just like to question things.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker.

Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.

This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.