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Quotes About Questioning

Si el universo es pasajero, es fácil pensar que la vida humana carece de sentido. ¿Por qué tendría que hacer nada en absoluto?
~ Erlend Loe
Elevators are brilliant. I'm going to stand here a little longer. The good thing about riding in an elevator as a grown-up is that nobody questions my being in the elevator. Nobody suspects me of just riding the elevator. I look like I'm one of the others.
~ Erlend Loe
I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.
~ Ernest Cline
Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.
~ Ernest Cline
Then what are you interested in, Herobrine?" I asked. "Why are you here?
~ Ernest Cline
O que acontece depois da morte? Bem, não sabemos ao certo. Mas as evidências sugerem que não acontece nada. Você morre, seu cérebro para de funcionar e você some e deixa de fazer perguntas irritantes.
~ Ernest Cline
O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.
~ Ernest Renan
This is an important difference. It turns the questioning into something closer to an interrogation.
~ Ernst Junger
if a person invokes the right to remain silent, all questioning must cease. If a person asks for a lawyer, questioning must end until one is provided
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
ruling that tangible evidence may be used against a criminal defendant, even if the police learned of it only through an interrogation that was done in violation of Miranda. In United States v. Patane in 2004, the Court held that police failure to give a criminal suspect the required Miranda warnings does not require suppression of physical evidence learned as a result of the questioning.
~ Erwin Chemerinsky
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
~ Esther Williams
Dear soul, am I only because I have been?
~ Etel Adnan
You know how it feels when you're someplace and you ask yourself, Why am I here? That's how it is with me all the time. I can't wait to leave. To go from wherever I am to some other place. It never ends.
~ Etgar Keret
Qué es el cáncer?", pensó. "Pues un atentado terrorista cometido por Dios. Qué hace Dios si no cometer atentados como protesta ante...algo, algo tan elevado y trascendente que ni siquiera alcanzamos a captarlo?
~ Etgar Keret
Y'know," he said and arched his back till his head reached the cereal shelf. "You know how they say suicides always happen in threes? Well, there's something to it. People around you start dying, and you begin to ask yourself what the hell makes you different, and what's keeping you alive anyway. It hit me like a Scud. I mean, I just didn't have the answers.
~ Etgar Keret
the way, when you were still alive, d'you ever go looking for God?" "No," Leehee said, and offered me some gum. "But I didn't really have any reason to.
~ Etgar Keret
Why is something done this way? Is this the best way it can be done?" You have to be fundamentally skeptical about everything.
~ Ethan M. Rasiel
I've always been suspicious of collective truths".
~ Eugene Ionesco
I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.
~ Eugene B. Sledge
How strange! Am I already dead?"
~ Eugene Botkin
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
~ Eugene Ionesco
I don't know…." He has been saying this over and over, ending every thought with it. Finally I ask him, "What don't you know?" He pauses. "Lots of things. Your favorite color, for example.
~ Eula Biss
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
~ Euripides
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
~ Euripides