Quotes About Questioning

God is not good, or else he could do better.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I said, Is my father dying? He looked at me steadily. We're all dying, Jane.

Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

I'M NOT buying it, Daniel.

until she was old enough to understand about God and biology and luck, she asked.

but with the intensity of a twelve-year-old I turned in fury against a God who could treat us that way.

Come on! You must have at least suspected there was someone else, he said. Couldn't you smell her on his pants?

The collie-dog Kep met her coming out, What are you doing with those onions? Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck? Jemima

Paul and Elder remind us: Critical thinkers are clear as to the purpose at hand and the question at issue. They question information, conclusions and point of view. They strive to be clear, accurate, precise, and relevant. They seek to think beneath the surface, to be logical and fair. They apply these skills to their reading and writing as well as to their speaking and listening. Critical thinking

I would like heterosexual women to be as actively curious about how and why and when they became heterosexual as I have been about how and why and when I became a Lesbian.

Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wun up the tree? Why him nest up theah? Why him gadder nuts? Why? Why? Why? And Billy answering every question to the best of his ability, as if anything less would disrespect the deep and maybe even divine force that drove his little nephew toward universal knowledge.

It's been hard times in America—how did we get this way? So scared all the time

That's because whenever we are too close to someone or something, we take our beliefs for granted, instead of questioning them as we do when we confront something more remote. The more familiar a stock is, the more likely it is to turn a defensive investor into a lazy one who thinks there's no need to do any homework. Don't let that happen to you.

Senhor Uhtred! - Como sempre, Willibald reagiu à minha provocação. - Esse peixe - ele apontou o dedo trêmulo na direção dos ossos - foi um dos dois que Nosso Senhor usou para alimentar 5 mil pessoas! - O outro devia ser um peixe incrivelmente grande - respondi. - O que era? Uma baleia?

Why do they put cows over the gates, sir? For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe.

I had thought about Alban for a while. "Why," I had then asked, "if your god can pull out a man's eyes, didn't he just save Alban's life?" "Because God chose not to, of course!" Beocca had answered sniffily, which is just the kind of answer you always get when you ask a Christian priest to explain another inexplicable act of their god.

What in the holy name of a holy harlot,' Culhwch asked Galahad, 'is a holy ghost?

Because I'm tired of Wessex,' I said, 'tired of priests, tired of being told what your god's will is, tired of being told that I'm a sinner, tired of your endless damned nonsense, tired of that nailed tyrant you call god who only wants us to be miserable.

Who invented my life?

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Manche Menschen sehen die Dinge, wie sie sind, und fragen: Warum? Ich träume von Dingen, die es noch nie gegeben hat, und frage: "Warum nicht?

Que história triste, pensei durante muito tempo. Não que eu pense agora que ela é feliz. Mas penso que é verdadeira e, diante disso, perguntar se é triste ou feliz é algo que não faz sentido.