Quotes About Questioning

The more we remain curious about the other person in the current context—before letting our own expectations and preconceptions creep in—the better our chances are of staying in the right questioning mode. The more we take a collaborative helping purpose into our conversations, the more likely we are to improve the relationship.

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.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

Who's that knocking on my grave and will not let me sleep, a year has one

I bleed, but know not wherefore, know not where.

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

Y desde dónde nos llama, señora Cargols? Desde Sant Joan Despí.

refuse to accept assertions blindly. Challenge everything and everyone—including your teachers. Don't be intimidated. You are the best authority on what you don't understand—trust yourself: don't be afraid to ask the questions you need to ask, and be brave enough to change your thinking when you uncover a blind spot.

Sacrilege takes strange forms in the young.

Enquiring minds want to know.

Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Is Saul also among the prophets?

It is so soon that I am done for,I wonder what I was begun for.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Canst thou by searching find out God?

And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?

Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

Don't question God, for He may reply: "If you're so anxious for answers, come up here."

What are these wounds in thine hands?… Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made of meat?

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?