Questioning Mind Quotes

#1. We need to encourage an attitude of constant questioning, which is a genuine part of our potential as students. If students were required to drop their questions, that would create armies of zombies- rows of jellyfish ... The questioning mind is absolutely necessary.

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. Certainly we admire Satan as a symbol of the questioning mind, the refusal to serve, the refusal to blindly obey authority.

Lilith Starr

#3. All fanatics loathe the questioning mind and fear the truth.

Stephen R. Harrison

#4. A questioning mind-set is the bridge to creativity.

Han Soo Lee

#5. A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. An educated mind is a questioning mind. Or is it?

T.S. Welti

#7. The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man's foot and stops him forever from advancing.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. The most ridiculous activity of human mind is questioning. Cognition of reality surpasses both question and answer, however ingenious.

Raheel Farooq

#9. No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford

#10. To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#12. In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#13. I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.

Rajneesh

#14. Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Joseph Joubert

#15. If you want the answer - ask the question.

Lorii Myers

#16. I want you to ask yourself the entire time before you meet me, 'Is this really what I want?

Brad McKinniss

#17. Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

Shailene Woodley

#19. Heart answered the question
which yet to be posed by mind.

Toba Beta

#20. I believe I've got it covered," Malik said with an admirably straight face and smooth tone. "But I wouldn't mind taking a break before getting to the next round. Grabbing a bite to eat."
Ethan glanced at me, questioning eyebrow arched. Have you infected him?
You're hilarious, I said.

Chloe Neill

#21. Her soul was soothed by his presence,
Her mind was soothed by his beliefs
Her heart was soothed by his love
And for the first time, she could see a future with someone who grabbed her by the hand and took her courageous being away from all that had her questioning life.

Nikki Rowe

#22. The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

Criss Jami

#23. A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Emile Durkheim

#24. ...the more we do for a child the less he will do for himself. If we give him watered-down material, many explanations, much questioning, if we over-moralize, depend on the work book to work the mind, what thinking is left for the child to do?

Karen Andreola

#25. Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.

Erwin Schrodinger

#26. Questioning anything within doubt,
will just bring mind to no certainty.

Toba Beta

#27. A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#28. We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Toni Packer

#29. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?

Melody Carlson

#30. The noble-minded have nine states of mind: for eyes, bright; for ears, penetrating; for countenance; cordial; for demeanor, humble; for words, trustworthy; for service, reverent; for doubt, questioning; for anger circumspect; and for facing a chance to profit, moral.

Confucius

#31. Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

John Eliot