Quotes About Questioning

Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Who is here with you?" "Don't stop," she begged. "Who is here with you?" he repeated, harshly this time. "You are." "What is my name?" "Reyes

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

There's not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It's read and study. And think about what you're studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask 'why?' And know the answers.

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

Curiosity demands satisfaction.

I am not your wife. We are strangers. Did I imagine that wedding service we attended together in a small church in Devon? he asked. Did I imagine that we consummated the marriage in a very thorough manner for two nights?

Had he done the right thing to let her go without a word or a letter? Was he right to leave it so, to disappear from her life?

What are you doing here? she asked. It seems that you ask me that every time we meet, he said, and I always have the same answer. I wish to talk to you.

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

You've seen what, Emilio conceded, but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it—in the meaning.

And you believe you will succeed, where God has failed me?

Did you think you were the only one? Is it possible that you are so arrogant?" he asked, in tones of wonderment. Sandoz was blinking rapidly now. "Did you think you were the only one ever to wonder if what we do is worth the price we pay? Did you honestly believe that you alone, of all those who have gone, were the single man to lose God? Do you think we would have a name for the sin of despair, if only you had experienced it?

I've seen what human beings can do- You've seen what... but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning