Quotes About Questioning

P.S. I wish I could believe you.)

He hadn't imagined a world in which one hundred percent of the people he investigated were up to no good.

What can be wrong?" they asked the doctor and their friends and themselves. "Oh, nothing but colic, it usually is just colic." So the formula was changed, and that did work for a time. But only for a time. It had to be changed again and yet again. Then the doctor himself began to seem uncertain.…

If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit.

Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer?" I asked. "Yup," said Leslie. "Just checking," I said. So we spent the rest of the afternoon bearing false witness in separate interview rooms.

You let them watch the Fassbender again,' I said to Victor 'Didn't you?

You think I look like a teletubby?

Finally, empathy and perspective are everything, and neither should be taken for granted. After all, there's always someone out there who thinks you're the monster. Remember that the ground beneath your feet can always shift and that it should always be questioned. Even the things that seem still are still changing —From "Still," Over The Hedge soundtrack, 2004

In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.

Others began soliciting speech from him, where did you buy those awesome boots, is that a hickey or a bruise, do you still practice martial arts?

Do. You. Ever. Feel. Guilty." He smiled. "Doesn't everybody?

AGAIN I went through the vetting process, including even more extensive questioning by the FBI.

Dudley was initially skeptical.

Question the motives of your professors. Pay attention to how they twist the facts, or editorialize during lecture. Ask them questions. Make them defend themselves. Make other students think before they buy into the professorial mindset.

Di setiap masyarakat, distingsi-distingsi kelas berpotongan dengan pelbagai sumbu distingsi dan identitas, namun hal ini bukan lantas berarti kita dapat mengabaikan eksistensi mereka. Anda tidak akan menemukan kelas-kelas kecuali Anda sungguh-sungguh mencarinya, menanyakan pertanyaan-pertanyaan dasar seperti "siapa memiliki apa, siapa berbuat apa, siapa mendapat apa, apa yang mereka lakukan dengan itu, apa yang mereka lakukan satu dengan yang lain?

Regardless of how you came to doubt, doubt itself is not the problem, but what can be problematic and even tragic is what you do with your doubt.

Doubting is biblical, historical, and normal for many Christians who are trying to follow God in their lifetimes. It takes courage to face uncertainty and to live with doubts that may never completely go away.

Is God asleep that he should cease to be all that he was to the prophets of the past?

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.

The key to any progress is to ask the question why? All the time. Why is that child poor? Why was there a war? Why was he killed? Why is he in power? And of course questions can get you into a lot of trouble, because society is trained by those who run it, to accept what goes on. Without questions we won't make any progress at all.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.

As I am a seeker of truth, I refuse to believe in every bit of dogma as a fact.