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It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is a...

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...

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Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in th...

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Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to whic...

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He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in...

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Her mind escaped between them, and went exploring for itself through the great gaps they had made in...

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What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another:...

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A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ...

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I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's bee...

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I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the question...

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The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can ...

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Richard DawkinsScience in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, an...

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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.