Quotes About Questioning

In many cases it is not one series of consequences will serve the turn, but many different and opposite deductions must be examined and laid together, before a man can come to make a right judgment of the point in question. What then can be expected from men that neither see the want of any such kind of reasoning as this, nor, if they do, know they how to set about it, or could perform it?

So, am I a genius?

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

but she wasn't sure where. The knee?

her faith has morphed greatly over the years—it has both faltered and deepened. She is more certain now than ever that there is something bigger out there, but she is less sure what it is. God? Allah? Karma?

if you're like nearly everybody else in this world, you've accepted so many things without question that you're not really thinking at all

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone that asks you the right question

any doubt what goes on. I'm puzzling over how to do this when

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug?

I hadn't the wit left to divert Mme. Pontchartrain's determined questioning. Fortunately, I had the wit to realize it, so I pled a cognac headache and fled.

What is your agenda, Don Sebastien? What is it you want of me? Of New Amsterdam?

Anyway, dissociation is a great coping skill. It can keep you going and functional basically forever. The problems hit when it starts to break down, which is essentially as soon as you start to question your own detachment.

Don't you wonder who you'd be without the clade? Without Judicial Recon? Without rightminding?

I don't suppose you know where in Hell we're going?" "Not Hell," Puck said. "Well, perhaps Hell, but I think it unlikely.

I'm not a religious person, though I dabbled for a while.

Oliver Cromwell came floating back to me. "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.

Should we have stayed at home,wherever that may be?

Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?

It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.

This isn't normal. This isn't how normal people think. Fuck off, world--what the hell is normal anyway?

MR LEWIS Mr Brightman, would you have

Maitland had associates who were known to be involved in organized crime in Briarstone and London. He'd been brought in for questioning on several occasions for different reasons; each time he'd given a "no comment" interview, or one where he stuck to one-word answers,

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?