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Quotes About Questioning

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?
~ Lady Gaga
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
~ Elie Wiesel
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
~ Lawrence Welk
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
~ Leo Tolstoy
I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'
~ Mattie Stepanek
Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?
~ Michael O'Donoghue
Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.
~ Jane Jacobs
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
~ Steven Wright
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
~ Dale Carnegie
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.
~ Dorothee Solle
Curiosity must be kept alive.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When asked a question, class, it's important to consider how it's framed. Sometimes a question is a door to another question, another way of seeing. Understanding.
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
Avram was shocked. "Well, how is the sand feeling?" he asked after a moment. "Crowded.
~ Jill Hammer
but everyone tries; trying is the human condition. All anyone can do is ask.
~ Jill Lepore
relieved no one of the obligation to judge right from wrong. But it did require subjecting the past to skepticism, to look to beginnings not to justify ends, but to question them—with evidence.
~ Jill Lepore
On the surface she might put on a good show, making fun of herself and her manless state, but inwardly it was hard sometimes not to wonder: Why me?
~ Jill Mansell
Smile...it makes people wonder what you're up to.
~ Jill Shalvis
I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and not another way?
~ Jill Talbot
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
~ Jill Tarter
The night before I'd discovered am lost in almost. Did everyone already know?
~ Jillian Weise
Pa gdje je ona Zo? Gdje je moje dijete?
~ Jilliane Hoffman