Quotes About Questioning

Is this the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall?" he asked, wondering whether he had arrived by mistake at a brothel that was throwing some sort of a party. "Oh

And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars .

The key to wisdom is doubt!

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question.

Maybe the answers weren't important. Maybe it was the asking which mattered. Not taking anything for granted. Maybe that's what stopped you growing old.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. If the mockingbird were chirping to give us the long-sought formula for a unified field theory, the point would be only slightly less irrelevant. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.

Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Those are the feelings you feel when you're out there and enough dark energy possesses you and you think, "Who the fuck am I? What happened to me?

Did you ever hear him in Lohengrin?' demanded Pardoe, taking the ends of his own moustache with both hands, as if about to tear it off and reveal himself in a new identity.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Niçin sorular? yerine nas?l 'sorular?n? tercih ediniz. Niçin sorular?; nedenlere, aç?klamalara, hakl? göstermelere ve özürlere ulaÅŸman?z? saÄŸlar. Fakat bunlar genellikle yararl? bilgi deÄŸildir. -S?n?rs?z Güç -Sorunu tanmlama ve çözmede kullan?labilecek anahtar kelimeler de önemlidir.

Algunos hombres ven las cosas como son, y dicen: «¿Por qué?» Yo sueño con cosas que nunca fueron, y me pregunto: «¿Por qué no?»

Lo importante es no dejar de interrogarse. La curiosidad tiene su propia razón de existir. Uno no puede evitar sentirse pasmado cuando se contemplan los misterios de la eternidad, de la vida, de la maravillosa estructura de la realidad. Es suficiente con que uno trate de aprehender un poco de ese misterio cada día. No pierda nunca una santa curiosidad. ALBERT EINSTEIN

I may question the infallibility of the teachers, but I hope that I shall not therefore be accused of doubt as to the thing to be taught.

Then she knew what she had done, and remembered to have heard that a girl who expresses a doubt is supposed to have gone beyond doubting. While

CHAPTER LVI 'NOW WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY?