Quotes About Questioning Your Beliefs

#1. For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

Ann Hood

#2. As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Criss Jami

#3. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

Terri Cheney

#4. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently.

Heyward Bruce Ewart III

#5. Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. Ardent believers hide within the safety of their absolutes, for much more courage is needed to abandon their cozy security for the questioning of ones own beliefs.

Galen Watson

#7. Do not think your story [for a one-person show] is unique ... your story is the same as millions of others. But that's o.k. - you just need to find the one or two things that makes your story interesting enough to justify someone leaving their apartment and exchanging currency.

Julie Halston

#8. There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.

Dan Pearce

#10. Before you wonder 'Am I doing things right?' ask yourself, 'Am I doing the right things?

Justin Bienvenue

#11. If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness?

Byron Katie

#12. 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

#13. Just because you were born into something doesn't mean that it's right and it doesn't mean that it's true. The world's greatest men and women have always been those who questioned everything that ever was presented to them as truth.

Dan Pearce

#14. We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals - or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms

John Okechukwu Munonye

#15. The obvious difference between Paul and us is that Paul bragged about his weakness, and we try to hide it.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#16. Everyone deserves another chance. Especially the people who mean the most to you.

Colleen Hoover

#17. When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

Edmund Phelps

#18. We are all blinded by our beliefs. Never stop questioning and realize only respectful discussions can free us from our delusions.

Jim Steele

#19. for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#20. Most of beliefs that are commonly known as scientific facts are based on various theories, which have never been validated. Many of them will never be.
Question your beliefs. Choose what promotes love and unity.

Raphael Zernoff

#21. Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to.

Laurie Seidler

#22. I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.

Rachel Held Evans

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

Brad McKinniss

#24. Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking what are the consequences that follow from them.

L. Susan Stebbing

#25. Rather than constantly questioning and challenging our beliefs and being willing to think differently about the opportunities that are out there, we withdraw into what we've done before. And in a world that's rapidly changing, that's a formula for vulnerability.

John Hagel III

#26. See yourself as who you want to be, not who you think you are.

Rowena Portch

#27. In place of philosophy, which involves developing a system of belief based on questioning and reasoning, many of our modern leaders have embraced ideology, which is based on having a system of beliefs essentially stripped of the questions.

David Rothkopf

#28. Is Wisdom derived from the accumulation of one's experiences, or rather one's thoughtful reflection upon what he has learned throughout the process?

Christopher Earle

#29. Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

Gore Vidal

#30. Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!

Patrick O'Brian

#31. Folly? O, it was indeed! But Folly is a prison where no charter of deliverence ever comes.

A.E. Coppard

#32. Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

Samantha Harvey