Quotes About Questioning

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The

It is a gift to be able to kill doubt with doubt.

You can't believe because she tells you to," I said "No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him.

Yeah." Gat was silent for a moment. "Do you believe in God?" "Halfway." I tried to think about it seriously. I knew Gat wouldn't settle for a flippant answer. "When things are bad, I'll pray or imagine someone watching over me, listening. Like the first few days after my dad left, I thought about God. For protection. But the rest of the time, I'm trudging along in my everyday life. It's not even slightly spiritual.

No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe anymore.

He didn't believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him. - Cady

I am not sure I'm a good person" he said after a while. "I'm not sure I am, either" I said.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?

The Greeks said that to marvel is the beginning of knowledge and where we cease to marvel we may be in danger of ceasing to know.

Straight?" He trembled as he asked this supreme question. "Scudder? A little too smart to be straight.

When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

because no matter how we try to explain it—through religion or randomness, it doesn't matter—existence just doesn't seem to make any sense.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about?

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

In the culture of do and tell, the biggest problem is that we cannot really know how valid or appropriate what we tell or are told is to the situation, unless we ask.

By asking a diagnostic question instead of continuing to encourage the unfolding of the client's story, you are taking charge of the direction of the conversation and should, therefore, consider whether or not this is desirable. The main issue is whether this steering is in the interest of actual problem-solving and helping, or simply indulging your curiosity in a way that may not be helpful.

Why does this not occur routinely? Don't we all know how to ask questions? Of course we think we know how to ask, but we fail to notice how often even our questions are just another form of telling—rhetorical or just testing whether what we think is right. We are biased toward telling instead of asking because we live in a pragmatic, problem-solving culture in which knowing things and telling others what we know is valued.