Quotes About Questioning

What if they're on the parkway?

My name is Carter Hall and I am a detective of history. But you are a detective, too. For to be human, at its core, is to question and quest. To seek answers about who we are. Even when--or especially when--those answers are beyond our grasp.

Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow and spend my days in shame? (Jer. 20:18)

How am I to keep on praising gods If they keep disappointing me, and never Match the good on my side with their good?

When we want something to be true, when a belief makes us happy—that's precisely when we should be questioning. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously greater.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

Why do they call it research if I've only done it this one time?

My head aches every time Donald Trump successfully dodges a question with this reoccurring tactic. What's his worst offense? I don't know. How long is this article?

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

Once upon a time . . . What time are we upon and where do I belong?

So why are we practicing this, anyway?" Percy asked. "Do you guys spend a lot of time laying siege to fortified cities?

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

This is the last time I'm asking you this, Put my name at the top of your list, This is the last time I'm asking you why, You break my heart in the blink of an eye.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.