Quotes About Questioning

Women are not allowed. Women are not allowed. Women are not allowed. Was it to protect the grave from the women or the women from the grave?

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

however, the doubts really set in.

But the fact of eight deaths must mean something, right?

I had to wonder if we were right to operate on him.

At times, they made her wonder if she had the right doctors

But doubts nevertheless creep in.

This new century arrived and we saw death, generational death, peeling our skins down to our blood plasma. And I asked you question after question, distracted by the scandal of billionaires accessorizing their flesh with newly minted coins. Where are we on this food chain of life to be eaten so easily century after century, decade after decade? Are

Why what?" she snapped. "Now don't be silly. You know why." But I did not know why.

It can be a bit of a puzzle, locating the single aspect of your life that isn't what it appears to be, the belief you assume you hold dear but that, in fact, you've never even questioned. It's hard to find what you don't know you're searching for.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word why?

People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.

She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to know it–they seemed to be going through the motions of some enormous pretense, acting out a ritual to ward off reality, letting the earth remain unseen and their lives unlived, in dread of something namelessly forbidden–yet the forbidden was the simple act of looking at the nature of their pain and questioning their duty to bear it.

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard? John Galt

Seguimos haciendo lo mismo de siempre, una y otra vez, y encima nos preguntamos por qué no mejoran las cosas.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. —VOLTAIRE

For truly, what computer has not asked whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous instructions?

Unease flickered in his eyes. "It's not so straightforward," I said in a deliberately light tone. "I don't mean the traditional God of terrestrial beliefs. I'm no specialist in religion, and I may not have come up with anything new, but do you happen to know if there ever existed a faith in… a defective God?

La primera obligación de la Inteligencia es la desconfianza hacia sí misma.

So that where I once did not know who or what you were, now I wonder who I or we are, or what. What planet is this anyway, my dear?

Each of us embodies the divine. Our ultimate spiritual authority is within, and we need no other person to interpret the sacred to us. We foster the questioning attitude, and we honor intellectual, spiritual, and creative freedom.

Io non so se Dio esiste, ma se non esiste ci fa una figura migliore.

Nowadays a bitter wife or husband might ask, "Whatever possessed me to think I loved you enough to marry you?" Through most of the past, he or she was more likely to have asked, "Whatever possessed me to marry you just because I loved you?