Quotes About Questioning

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?

I wonder what it's like to be dead.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

The object of the new school is to teach reasonable doubt. Not the unreasonable doubt of the wild-eyed heckler, but the evidence-based doubt of the questioning scientist and the reason-based doubt of the skilled debater.

Aku tahu betul tentunya bahwa dosa terbesar terhadap Tuhan adalah keputusasaan; namun keheningan Tuhan ini tak bisa kumengerti. Tuhan melindungi orang jujur ketika orang-orang lain yang tak bertuhan mati di sekelilingnya. Sepatutnyalah dia pergi ketika api membakar kota-kota di dataran itu. Tetapi sekarang negeri tandus gersang ini sudah terbakar sebelum buah-buah di pohon menjadi masak, Tidakkah seharusnya Tuhan berbicara barang sepatah kata saja kepada umatnya?

Your Royal Grace, Forgive my boldness. If I might inquire: How old are you? —Kimber

Somehow you don't question things until you come face to face with the person and suddenly- suddenly you realize that behind all them stories it have a flesh- and- blood, breathing, feeling person who capable of hurting, yes! Well, ask her, na. Ask her if she want to garden. I think about starting a plot for the old people to have something to do. Some people say that gardening good for old people. I am proof of that!

Is this how I will forever live my life, owing explanations and apologies? When did this manner of making my way through the world start?

You are out of your freaking skull! Maybe, but is that relevant?

Catherine Le Vendeur, he asked sententiously, have you known this man carnally? No father, Catherine answered. But, with your kind permission, I would very much like to.

Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.

And why do I have to tell more about the blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road?

If we hold beliefs skillfully, we will not get entangled in them, but will see them as the mental constructs they are. When we claim our right to question everything, including our beliefs, we can unhook from our dependence on what is familiar and let in the heartfelt, open, fresh quality of faith.

I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?

The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe "this concerns me," above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.

sturdy five-foot-ten frame—but that was in another country, and alas… "What's that you've got in your hand?" he snapped at me. I glanced down at the piece of paper

Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11?

She knew Indians were obsessed with authenticity. Colonized, genocided, exiled, Indians formed their identities by questioning the identities of other Indians. Self-hating

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Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)

Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I'm here? (Eros)

But this…this kid wasn't dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

Why can't you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)

And when it comes to questioning people, I have a lot more finesse than High King Let's Beat The Shit Out Of Them Until They Answer Us. The nonviolent art of interrogating someone is totally lost on Kip. (Syn)