Quotes About Questioning

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

At times Leonardo was troubled by his lack of achievement. As a young man he appears to have developed a reputation for melancholia. "Leonardo," wrote a friend, "why so troubled?" A sad refrain runs through his notebooks: "Tell me if anything was ever done," he often sighs. Or in another place: "Tell me if ever I did a thing.

chapter 5   I pressed the bell, and in a minute a rich female voice gurgled in the speaking-tube. "Who is it, please?" "Lew Archer. Is Morris home?

A professor, who had left teaching soon after World War II, lectured to a group of students at a major Western university a few years ago on the decline of liberty. To his shock, one of the first questions asked by a student was simply this: "What's so wonderful about liberty? What makes you think it is necessary for man?" For the students, security was a necessary social objective; liberty was not.

Para qué narices queremos jirafas que se parezcan a sí mismas?

The question mark, used well, may be the most profoundly human form of punctuation. Unlike the other marks, the question mark—except perhaps when used in a rhetorical question—imagines the Other. It envisions communication not as assertive but as interactive, even conversational.

The Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

It's clever, but is it Art?

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade."To turn you out, to turn you out," the Color-Sergeant said.

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

What are you smiling about? I simply asked a question. I don't care, I'm just curious."- Sesshomaru

It is not anti-scientific to question established beliefs, but central to science itself. At the creative heart of science is the spirit of open minded inquiry. Ideally, science is a process and not a position or a belief system. Innovative science happens when scientists feel free to ask questions and build new theories.

Must everything have a purpose? Must a star have a purpose? Must a pretty sparkler have a purpose other than to emit light? Must a beautiful stone have a purpose?

Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father replied. 'What are we Papa?'. 'I don't know. We must wait and see'.

They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod.

Why aren't you in your room?" he asked. "We're married,

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question in "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question is "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?

There are many things in this world that trouble me,' she said. 'Do they not trouble you, too?

Imagine how different you would be if the history of your world was different,' said the tyger. "There are infinite possible histories of the world, and of yourselves. So you should never stop questioning the world, and everything in it; wondering how it could be different.

Dennis says) "Hey, you're playing confuse-the-unbeliever again. I have never been able to get a straight answer on whether you guys have two deities or dozens, taken from any pantheon you feel like mugging in a theological dark alley. Which is it? Number one or number two?" "Yes," Juniper said, with all the other coven members joining in to make a ragged chorus...

Sólo sé que no sé nada.