self-questioning
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A certain humility in the face of the field’s uncertainties also seems to help; on a different questionnaire, therapists whose care was more successful gave responses that “reflected self-questioning about professional efficacy in treating clients.”
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
"There was definite hesitancy, or just more self-questioning - why am I curious about doing this? But in many ways, it feels like such a lifetime ago, that version of my life," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2022
It’s to this rigorously intellectual and self-questioning filmmaker’s credit that he doesn’t present these parts of his oeuvre as anything but conscience-stricken stabs at making sense of it all.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021
This actually ties into your self-questioning on “squandering” power.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
The chief difference between them and our modern scientific myth of the Big Bang is that science is self-questioning, and that we can perform experiments and observations to test our ideas.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
