Quotes About Questioning

Hundred years from now if this world exists, the children will ask their parents why their forefathers were so fools to wear the masks on their face by believing widespread lies.

When a company has a diversified business interests, it is branded as a MULTIFACETED organisation; but if a professional has an experience in different products and/or fields, then he is subjected to a lot of baseless questioning and why people not consider him a MULTITALENTED person.

Are red haired girls, red all over?

Actually, we were at the other extreme from giants: we had become dwarfs! And I mean this quite literally. For, often, the right way to philosophize is to make yourself artificially stupid! Only by being "stupid" can you break the barrier of the seemingly obvious.

Could my uncle have finally become unhinged?

Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Wie van jullie is aan de pil, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie heeft een geslachtsziekte, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken. Wie van jullie is vandaag op het schoolplein in de reet geneukt, lieve kinderen? Hand opsteken.

Believe me, I had my share of "why" questions. I turned my eyes upward again and again , and in my heart I asked why I, an ordinary human, should be bearing such an extraordinary burden of pain and grief. Why I was the one picked to deal with such a tortuous twist of fate? It all seemed so unjust. I had reached a point where I had to get answers to some questions that were inside me. Shutting myself into the world of my heart and mind, I wondered, "Why? Why? Why?

Our constant barrage of why's sounds a lot like whining to me. If you are a "why-ner," you're not looking for solutions. You are not interested in answers. You only want sympathy. But if you stop "why-ning," you can develop a belief system that says there are unfair things that happen in life that are an integral part of existence, and that when they happen you'll deal with them the best you can. Only then are you in the position to start making changes in your life.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company.

One of the many qualities that separate self-made billionaires from the rest of us is their ability to ask the right questions.

I think, from the beginning, I was healed and inspired by queer culture, and Christine and the Queens, as an idea from the beginning, is queer because it questions the norm.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Life is about overcoming self-doubt. But you don't grow if you don't question yourself.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.