“Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.” GivingTryingYearsChristianSimpleAcceptingGiving UpBlessedChristian InspirationalQuestioningThrough The YearsSimple Faith Author:Vance Havner
“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.” IndividualSocialImaginationAcceptingCreativityCreativeCapableCapacityPressureCaughtIntuitionAssumptionQuestioningPeer PressureSocial PressureFalse Assumptions Author:John W. Gardner
“For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.” OrderAcceptingFolksQuestioningDisturbingOrderlyUnschoolingDisturbing Things Author:Sandra Dodd
“After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.” MenWritingLongBookAbleThreeNextAcceptingLong TimeTraditionMalesQuestioningTime SpentHonoraryLearning How To Write Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.” MindMayMatterWholeBodyAmericaTimeSoundChangeChallengesAbilityAcceptingDoubtAcceptanceCitizensLoyaltyCeaseDoctrineInstantOfficialsRepublicLoyalQuestioning Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.” IfsFoundMy OwnAnswersAcceptingMinesGoes OnAuthorityIncludingDisappearQuestioning Author:Rajneesh
“Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.” MenWorldImportantRealPhilosophyAcceptingThis WorldWorthwhileQuestioningOngoing Author:Josiah Royce
“That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.” ThinkingMindKindValuesAttitudeAcceptingDemocracyAuthorityApproachQuestioningSkepticalIdenticalDemocracies HaveConsonants Book:Conversations with Carl Sagan Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan