Quotes About Questioning

I feel a lot of people don't know what high school is - including those who are in it. My material is provided to give them some perspective. People are stupid. They never stop to question things. They just accept. Can you imagine a nation who never questions the validity of cheerleaders and pom-poms?

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

What am I doing in this eternal winter?

Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: Does he know his sentence? No, said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him? No, said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.

Every dog has, as I do, the urge to question. And I, like all dogs, have the compulsion to be silent.

Müzikten bu denli etkilendiÄŸine göre bir hayvan m?yd? gerçekten?

Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer.

En el portón me detuvo para preguntarme: «¿Hacia dónde cabalga el señor?». «No lo sé -respondí-. Sólo quiero irme de aquí, solamente irme de aquí. Sólo así puedo alcanzar mi meta.» «¿Conoce, pues, su meta?», preguntó él. «Sí -contesté yo-. Lo he dicho ya. Salir de aquí, ésa es mi meta.»

36. Önceleri sorular?ma neden cevap alamad???m? anlayam?yordum, ÅŸimdiyse soru sorabileceÄŸime nas?l inanabildiÄŸimi anlayam?yorum. Ama gerçekte inanm?yordum ki, soruyordum sadece.

Pregunto acaso [...] con la pretensión de que se me conteste? ¿Tengo unas esperanzas tan estúpidas?

pytajÄ… wszyscy jeden przez drugiego. Wydaje siÄ™, jakby chciano w ten sposób zatrze? Å›lad prawdziwych pytaÅ".

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.

What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Sometimes, I'm not sure why I wind up doing some of the things I do.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

He who frames the question wins the debate.

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.