Quotes About Questioning

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

In a classical joke a child stays behind after school to ask a personal question. "Teacher, what did I learn today? " The surprised teacher asks, "Why do you ask that?" and the child replies, "Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say".

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

Si había que deshacerse, que fuera así: aceptando que somos todos tontos del culo. Tal vez entonces perderíamos el respecto a los tontos del culo de nuestros antepasados y abandonaríamos nuestras tradiciones de mierda, cuestionaríamos nuestras creencias, nacionalidades e identidades de mierda, borraríamos nuestras fronteras de mierda y conviviríamos todos juntos, todo lo bien que puede esperarse de una panda de tontos del culo.

Remember your grandfather's last words, Jonah would tell his children: Life is nothing more than a little why.

I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked 'what if He really meant it?' it could turn the world upside down. It is a shame christians have become so normal.

Dom Helder Camara, a twentieth-century bishop in Brazil, said, "When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a Communist.

Some folks give people fish. Others teach people to fish. Others ask, "Who owns the pond? And why does a fishing license cost so much?

Well do I remember the first night we met, how you questioned my opinion that first impressions are perfect. You were right to do so, of course, but even then I suspected what I've come to believe most passionately these past weeks: from that first moment, I knew you were a dangerous woman, and I was in great peril of falling in love." She thought she should say something witty here. She said, "Really?

It was my jewelry!" Briar shouted after his father because he'd forgotten to ask what was stolen.

What's wrong with you?" Nika asks Madoc. He responds, "I'm an incurable asshole.

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

Why are you always right, Captain?" "Now, do you know, my perspective is that I'm often wrong.

I want to say to him, now, What was it like, to love me—when you looked at me, what did you see?

How did they find out?" Donnal inquired. "Did you set them on fire?" "You know, it's so rare that I actually do that, and yet that's always the first question anyone asks me." -Senneth

What is home? I wanted to ask. Haven't I already come home?

What's the point?" I asked even though I didn't expect an answer. He shook his head. "I don't know. Power." He took a drag on the cigarette. "To what end?

You need tension in order to create something—the sand in the pearl. She said my questioning and doubts were the sand. She said they were good and forced me to live with integrity, to interrogate what was important to me, and so to live the meaning of my life, rather than resort to convention.

I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

I g-g-guess...I'm dead?" she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin. For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then: "Hi, Dead. I'm Dan.

I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.