Questioning Beliefs Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Questioning Beliefs". There are currently 39 quotes in our collection about Questioning Beliefs. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Questioning Beliefs!
The best sayings about Questioning Beliefs that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

    "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.
  • The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

    Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins
  • There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.76, e-artnow
  • Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

  • Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press
  • The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

    Pain   Science   Ideas  
    Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press
  • For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

    Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.122, Hachette UK
  • A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

    James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • The universe is wider than our views of it.

    Science   Views   Space  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
  • Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

    "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.
  • Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

    Believe   Men   Thinking  
  • The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

    Change   Pain   Fear  
    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

    Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)
  • No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars.

    Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
  • Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

  • One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

    Success   Mother   Truth  
    James D. Watson (2011). “The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

    Wise   Science   Men  
  • Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

    William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.195, Courier Corporation
  • The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

    Science   Thinking   Fog  
    Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.57, Harvard University Press
  • If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

    Science   Ideas   Watches  
  • Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

    Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.82, Courier Corporation
  • All great truths begin as blasphemies.

    Annajanska (1919)
  • Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

  • A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

    "American Treasury, 1455 - 1955". Book by Clifton Fadimany, 1455 - 1955, 1955.
  • Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
  • The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

    "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.
  • All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive
  • I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

    "Dow 36,000". Book by James K. Glassman, Kevin A. Hassett, www.cnn.com. September 14, 1999.
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Questioning Beliefs quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Questioning Beliefs is constantly growing (today it includes 39 sayings from famous people about Questioning Beliefs), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Questioning Beliefs!