Quotes About Questioning

Spremnost da se odgovori na sva pitanja nepogrešivi je znak gluposti.

Ja kriv? Kako to misliš? - Jer si ti intelektualac, a oženio si intelektualku. U svakom intelektualcu krije se negdje budala. Vi ljudi ne znate odgovoriti niti na vlastita pitanja...

Nu. Nu ma întelegi. De ce lasa el sa existe boala si bolnavi? Din doua una:ori e rau, ori nu prea e cine stie ce de capul lui.

Skeptics," he said, "suffer from the skeptics' disease— the problem of being right too often.

This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.

That was the tipping point for me. I called a meeting with my mother and announced that I was discontinuing my religious education. I explained my new hypothesis that she and all other believers were being duped for reasons I couldn't understand, but I planned to get to the bottom of it. My mother listened to my reasoning, acknowledged that I was making a well-informed decision, and never asked me to attend church again. My mom was awesome that way.

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

É vero, io sono soltanto un viandante, un pellegrino su questa terra. Voi siete forse qualcosa di più?

Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, musst du vernünftig fragen.

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor, Und bin so klug als wie zuvor! Heiße Magister, heiße Doktor gar, Und ziehe schon an die zehen Jahr' Herauf, herab und quer und krumm Meine Schüler an der Nase herum - Und sehe, daß wir nichts wissen können!

You are not my wife yet, to concern yourself in my affairs." "And when I am your wife?" His conscience pricked him, making him snap, "You will learn not to question me." -Royce to Corliss-

Then what is the purpose of a church?" the others kept asking.

Am I th'abandon'd orphan of blind chance; Dropt by wild atoms in disorder'd dance? Or from an endless chain of causes wrought? And of unthinking substance, born with thought?

If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.

But later, standing in triage, surrounded by a pile of bloody rags that had been cut from the body of an eight-year-old boy who was now in surgery, having a gangrenous leg amputated, she felt the black heat rising inside her head again. It made her wish she'd gone with Cooper. What the hell is wrong with people that they'd do these things—to little kids? It

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in huge libraries filled with books, in fantastic amounts of data stored on servers. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative.

new ideas take over a vacuum formerly occupied by no well-articulated idea at all. That happens for either of two reasons: new ideas responding to new information made possible by new measurements, or else responding to new "outlooks." (Among historians of science, the term used rather than the inadequate English term "outlook" is the German Fragestellung—literally, the posing of a question, but more broadly meaning a worldview from which that question can arise.)

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don't ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight (October), the eleventh called the ninth (November), the twelfth called the tenth (December)?

literature gives you ideas to think with. It stocks your mind. It does not indoctrinate, because diversity, counter-argument, reappraisal and qualification are its essence. But it supplies the materials for thought. Also, because it is the only art capable of criticism, it encourages questioning, and self-questioning.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

You want to know what's on the other side?' Walsh eyed the detective carefully, as if gauging the seriousness of the question. 'Is it seventy-two virgins, like the Muslims believe?' 'That's the good news. The bad news is that they're all guys. It's like being at a boarding school.' 'I knew there had to be a catch.

If 'why' was the first and last question, then 'because I was curious to see what would happen' was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

He had found it hard to equate the priest's God with the one who had left his mother to die slowly and painfully.