Check the evidence. Check the basis of conventional beliefs. — Edward O. Thorp
We question all of our beliefs, except the ones we truly believe, and those are ones we never think to question. — Alex Hormozi
"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." — Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — Bertrand Russell
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. — Aristotle
Question everything generally thought to be obvious. — Dieter Rams
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe. — Franz Kafka
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. — Peter Ustinov
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. — Rupert Spira
Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue? — Charles Templeton
If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option. — PZ Myers
Short Questioning Beliefs Quotes
The pursuit of truth requires intellectual courage and a willingness to question everything. — Bret Weinstein
You can’t build a better mind without challenging your own beliefs and assumptions. — Mark Manson
You have to be willing to question conventional wisdom and think for yourself. — Jim Simons
Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable. — T. B. Joshua
Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong — Peter Rollins
Doubt is the origin of wisdom — Rene Descartes
The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable. — Paul Broca
Doubt everything. Find your own light. — Buddha
Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson
Questioning Beliefs Image Quotes
It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Questioning Your Beliefs Quotes
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?' — Morgan Freeman
Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered? — Greg Plitt
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. — Anthony De Mello
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
Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs. — Raymond Charles Barker
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. — Vera Nazarian
There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death. — U.G. Krishnamurti
The questions to ask are what is moral, what is ethical, what is in line with your belief system, and what seems to make the most sense and cause the least amount of harm? Eat the foods that are in line with your sincere answers. — Robert Cheeke
Whatever you believe about your body, your cells believe too. They don't question anything you think, feel, or believe. In fact, they hear every thought, feeling, and belief you have. — Rhonda Byrne
Doubting Everything Quotes
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. — Uell Stanley Andersen
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. — Sylvia Plath
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate. — Horatius Bonar
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. — Nancy Lopez
Philosophy gets on my nerves. If we analyze the ultimate ground of everything, then everything finally falls into nothingness. But I have decided to resume my lectures again and look the Hydra of doubt straight into the eye, and it be quite ominous if one values one's life. — Ludwig Boltzmann
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts. — Gustave Flaubert
Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough. — Hal Higdon
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — Lord Byron
Different Beliefs Quotes
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. — Gerald G. Jampolsky
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. — Jimmy Carter
Our differences in beliefs
do not truly separate us,
or elevate us over others.
Rather,
they highlight the rich tapestry
that is humanity. — George Takei
Believe in yourself and your abilities. You have the power to make a difference. — Jensen Huang
As long as we say: "Alright, it is truth for me, and I believe in it and I am ready to fight for it, but I accept that others have different beliefs - and so let me have a closer look at what they believe" - we can gain from our intercourse thanks to our difference, not despite our difference. — Zygmunt Bauman
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices. — Joseph Bruchac
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude — Peter L. Berger
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. — Steve Jobs
I believe there is a God, but there are so many different religions and so many people who believe passionately about these things. — MrBeast
Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances. — Timothy Miller
Personal Beliefs Quotes
I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. — Septima Poinsette Clark
As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances. — Joseph Murphy
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. — John Stuart Mill
The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury
I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment. — Akira Toriyama
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. — David Brooks
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. — Sam Altman
The most important person to believe in is you. Everyone else who believes in you means nothing unless if you finally believe in yourself. — Patrick Bet-David
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. — Mark Twain
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people. — Howard Dean
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives. — Pema Chodron
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms? — William James
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. — James D. Watson
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
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. — Albert A. Michelson
Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. — H. G. Wells
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. — Wilfred Trotter
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song. — Tom Araya
Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights. — Paul Robeson
It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe. — Walpola Rahula
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed. — Morris Raphael Cohen
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars. — Helen Keller
Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief. — Leon Brown
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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. — Pete Seeger
I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls. But the suffering of one single child, or more likely, millions is evidence against that belief. The one question I want to ask god: how do you explain or justify the suffering of a child? — Melina Mercouri
Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy. — Charlotte Sophia Kasl
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. — Sonia Gandhi
The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. — Thomas Huxley
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so inclusive, he is making a virtue out of a defense mechanism which insures him against questioning his presuppositions. — Karl Mannheim
The heart is always right - if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart - because mind is a creation of society. It has been educated. You have been given it by society, not by existence. The heart is unpolluted. — Osho
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. — Jasper Fforde
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
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. — Carol P. Christ
These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems. — David Icke
Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property. — Carl Sagan
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes. — Salman Rushdie
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. — Henry David Thoreau
They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader. — Dave Hunt
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