Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance
I don't like accepting things at face value.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
Questioning is the piety of thought.
Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.
People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.
The longing for light is the longing for consciousness.
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
There are people who are seekers and people who aren't.
I have figured out that you never completely figure it out.
It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.
Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!
The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.
Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.
I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.
I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.
