Quotes About Questioning

There is only one right answer to any given question at any given time, and how can I tell when the time has come to know the difference?

I have never been very good at dealing with the police. I always come off as a smart-ass, and whenever I claim to be innocent, not only am I generally not believed, but it tends to make my questioner lose his patience. I also have a special gift for creating misunderstandings in the dialogue. This tends to stoke the already simmering anger of the police, whose sole aim is to pry loose a nice solid confession and go home, happy to have earned their salary.

I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.

There is a certain sort of innocence that comes with curiosity. Who

I'm just curious, why did you choose to dye your hair blue?" as opposed to "Why is your hair blue?

The New "Why" Question Generally, you don't want to begin conversations with "Why" questions because, as mentioned before, they have a tendency to put people on the defense. It

Probing Probing is the art of asking the right question at the right time. Throughout the story, you can ask your audience some questions. After relating or telling your story, you can ask your audience about their perceptions and opinions to learn if anything needs to be changed for the next time you tell the story. Do

People admired her poetry, but she knew there were plenty of readers who questioned it. How could she write brokenhearted verse if she never loved? Why did she compose so much about death if she knew little of life?

Many humans live their entire lives without questioning the 'truths' they've been told.

Sometime it's more difficult to know the question than to find an answer.

What the hell is wrong with you? he asked. It was a good question.

One question, I said. Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die? No, he said. It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too. I'll take that as a yes, I said.

QUESTION EVERYTHING; STAND BACK, I'M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE!; I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN.

Did I just kill someone? You can't kill a dead person, Callum said. Makes no sense.

What tinfoil? he asked.

Like what?" he said, giving me a sideways glance, slipping in the process. "Saying that they're lucky.

Stevie had absolutely no idea what he meant by "have a butcher's" and was not going to ask.

Just a moment, she said, Murphy, yes? How did she know that? Keith asked as the woman walked to the phone. How do you have all of these strange connections inside Harrods? Who are you?

Jesus Christ," Nate said, banging his head delicately against the mirror wall. "Is this even a school, or are we in some kind of experiment?

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?

He stood looking at her as if it took all of his effort to keep his eyes directed at her face, to keep seeing her, to endure the sight. "What do you want?" he asked.

What kind of 'changing world', Alvah? Changing to what? From what? Who's doing the changing?

Vosotros, que carecéis de normas de estima propia, aceptáis la culpa y no os atrevéis a formular preguntas.

each remembered other moments, on a sleepless night, on an afternoon of steady rain, in a church, in an empty street at sunset, when each had wondered why there was so much suffering and ugliness in the world. They had not tried to find the answer and they had gone on living as if no answer were necessary. But each had known a moment when, in lonely, naked honesty, he had felt the need of an answer.