Quotes About Questioning

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?

You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going.

Doubtful disputations.

Quais as asneiras?, pensou ele, intrigado, vasculhando o súbito, angustioso, enorme vazio da memória até onde o braço da lembrança conseguia.

The simple idea, then, is that feelings of pain and feelings of pleasure, from degrees of well-being to malaise and sickness, would have been the catalysts for the processes of questioning, understanding, and problem solving that most profoundly distinguish human minds from the minds of other living species.

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

Do you know one sign that you've woken up? It's when you are asking yourself, "Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?

How happy we would be if terrorists would adore their ideology less and question more. However, we don't like to apply that to ourselves; we think we're all right and the terrorists are wrong. But a terrorist to you is a martyr to the other side.

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it.

Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?

Te parece correcto —le pregunta— hacer algo solo porque todo el mundo lo hace?

Even if you don't believe in it, I do. Otherwise what's it all been for?

É certo — pergunta Jutta — fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estão fazendo?

Wherever her great-uncle is, could he have survived this? Could anyone? Has she?

Did you know," says Marie-Laure, "that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that." "In one year or in one lifetime?" "I'm not sure." "You should have asked.

Did you know," says Marie-Laure, "that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that." "In one year or in one lifetime?" "I'm not sure." "You should have asked.

It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it?

I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it.

What exactly was the point? And more pertinently, what the hell was I doing here? How had I allowed my life to come to this?

Hawthorne ignored this. 'Why did Akira Anno lie about being with you?' he asked. 'Having supper with an old friend, a publisher … you'd have thought there was nothing more innocent in the world.

she's trying another tack. 'Do you really believe

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.

Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.