Quotes About Questioning

It comes back to his math-trained habits of thought. A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making?

I kept having those "What's the point of ...?" moments, but plugged away at life pretty consistently, anyway.

I once asked the servants why none of them had blue eyes like my aunts. They replied that only the ladies could afford to buy the blue glass cups in which they kept their eyes at night to make them more blue and beautiful, and furthermore, if we went on asking silly questions, the rats that steal the faces of inquisitive children in order to wear them as masks would come to take us to live in the twilit world between the ceiling and the roof where no one ever dared to go.

Yo no entiendo, Madre Benita, cómo usted puede seguir creyendo en un Dios mezquino que fabricó tan pocas máscaras, somos tantos los que nos quedamos recogiendo de aquí y de allá cualquier desperdicio con que disfrazarnos para tener la sensación de que somos alguien (...)

La curiosidad intelectual es la negación de todos los dogmas y la fuerza motriz del libre examen

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.

Durak," he said, spitting it. When

The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art.

What, us?" Squirrelflight's eyes opened wide and her tail curled up. "Never!

What happened?" Sagewhisker demanded. "The rats happened," Scorchwind growled.

Mothwing," she murmured, unable to bear the uncertainty any longer, "who was your father? Was it Tigerstar?" Shock flared in Mothwing's amber eyes. For a moment she hesitated, and then replied, "Yes.

What have I done?

What in the world

purpose, even if he didn't understand what it was.

What are those?" Brambleclaw

It will be wonderful if StarClan returns, but will it really be such a disaster if they don't?

Had he really loved her once?

I don't mean about ignoring StarClan. But it's good for cats to question things instead of just accepting them.

Am I a monster?" he whispered hoarsely.

Because of this, some cats always questioned her loyalty to the warrior code—though never within earshot of Graystripe.