Quotes About Questioning

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

a large number of the Busters and Mosaics have rarely attended church, if at all. Their question for the established church is, Why should I attend your church when there are so many other things that I could be doing?

Só se questiona quem procura por si mesmo, quem quer sair da superfície do planeta mente para entrar em suas camadas mais profundas. Quem não se questiona não duvida das próprias verdades, não vasculha os fundamentos das emoções e dos pensamentos que tem, vai sempre ser superficial, ainda que seja academicamente um intelectual. E quanto mais me questionava, mais anotava e mais desenvolvia novos conhecimentos.

Somos uma partícula que surge na arena da existência e logo desaparece. Apesar da pequenez do ser humano, nosso pensamento caminha na esfera da imaginação mais rápido do que a luz, e é mais fértil do que o solo mais rico. Perambulamos apreensivos durante algumas dezenas de anos em nossa breve trajetória existencial usando o aparelho psíquico para tentar desvendar o desconhecido, em especial a vida. Perguntar é nosso destino.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?

What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? ---- The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.

Buras? ne fabrikas? beyefendi? - Vallahi iyice bilemiyorum ama, galiba... makinelere filan bak?l?rsa, bir makine fabrikas? olacak.

If you can doubt at points where other people feel no impulse to doubt, then you are making progress.

He sighed deeply, pain in his eyes. "What is it you're running from? Is it me?

Where are you taking me?" Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.

And because it works better, when anything seemeth to be gotten from you by question, than if you offer it of yourself, you may lay a bait for a question, by showing another visage, and countenance, than you are wont; to the end to give occasion, for the party to ask, what the matter is of the change? As Nehemias did; And I had not before that time, been sad before the king.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer.

I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.

Will the reader turn the page?

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It was a lot of questioning and reading.