Quotes About Questioning

?nsanlar?n en zay?f taraflar?, sormadan, ara?t?rmadan, dü?ünmeden, kafalar?n? patlatmadan inanmak hususundaki hayret verici temayülleridir.

Dünyada ?imdi onunla yan yana bulunmamam?z kadar mant?ks?z ve lüzumsuz ne vard?r acaba?

?u dünyay? adamak?ll? görmeden, dünyan?n ne oldu?unu adamak?ll? anlamadan buradan gidecek olduktan sonra ne diye buraya geldik sanki? Ya?ad???m?z?n fark?na varmayacak olduktan sonra ne diye ya??yoruz?

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

Learn to ask of all questions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with your own.

We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly.

for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Running through caverns of darkness.… —HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," 1858.

How much longer can I be so fucking cute?

He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.

Oh God. It's no joke. Oh God oh God. How can I keep on living?

Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art, we're in trouble. Symbolic thinking of any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and grave goods, and the afterlife, and sin, and Linear B, and kings, and then slavery and war. Snowman longs to question them—who first had the idea of making a reasonable facsimile of him, of Snowman, out of a jar lid and a mop? But that will have to wait.

It's outrageous, one woman said, but without belief. What was it about this that made us feel we deserved it?   When

I wanted to ask why it had to be like this, but I already knew the answer: because it was God's plan. That was how the Aunts got out of everything

Returning from the dead used to be something I did well I began asking why I began forgetting how

Being able to read and write did not provide the answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

It's about time we start criticizing faith.