Quotes About Questioning

What happened to you, baby?

His blue eyes drilled into me. "Why are you doing this?" I shrugged uncomfortably. "I don't know." He shook his head once like that wasn't good enough. "Why are you here?" His fingers shifted, the tips sending hot little sparks up my arm. He should look ridiculous with the blue washcloth covering half his face, but he didn't. He looked human and male and all too vulnerable right then. "Because you need someone.

But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight.

Can I really do this?

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Do I dare ask him for what I want, As if I knew it, Could find it on some page In some chapter In some book?

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.

we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.

It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: "How should I live?

He becomes an auto-psychologist. "What do I know?" he asks himself.

Benim böyle bir heyecana kap?lmam, bu ateÅŸi hissetmem, hararetimin bu kadar yükselmesi, elimde olmadan sesimin deÄŸiÅŸmesi için ne olmas? gerekirdi acaba?

A certain style of modern detective fiction might show our hero rushing to a terribly clever supposition by page sixteen and spending the rest of the novel proving himself right, but for your long-suffering actual policeman there is merely painstaking elimination and solid detective work, which means questioning every possible suspect.

Is there a rug?' she asked, hanging fire. 'Nay. The sins burnin' in yer marrow will keep yer warm.

Why are you here, Audrey? Because you feel picked on by God, and you want to pick on someone, too? "Anyway,

I know I asked, but I don't want to know. I do want to know, but I don't want to know. It doesn't matter. If it's not Tayeb whoever, it'll be something else, and I'd always be playing catch-up. I was always playing catch-up.

Really, Joe? Really? You freaking think so?

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

It has been said "the truth will make men free". The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation.

By doubting we come at truth.

Curious people are intersting people, I wonder why that is.

By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.