Self Questioning Quotes:

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Self Questioning, Age, Aging

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

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Truth, Spiritual Truth, Being Accepted

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

source: Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Truth, Science, Discovery, Zen Motorcycle Maintenance, Questioning Beliefs

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

source: Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

topic: Self Questioning

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Self, Hurtful, Together, Joie De Vivre, Self Questioning

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

- Tony Judt

topic: Responsibility, Past, Self, Self Questioning

When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other goals...and possibly their real selves. All these moments of changes, of self-questioning, are like an engine to the films I make - that's where lie the dynamics I'm interested in as a director.

- Anne Fontaine

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Real, Lying, Character, Drifting Away, Real Self