Quotes About Questioning

can one really believe if there is no freedom to disbelieve? What is the credit in having faith if you allow others and yourself no real choice at all?

And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me—who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She

Better the devil's tongue to argue and question than a silent tongue and an empty head.

The Stone Girl looked down at the ground for a long moment, then up at Renie, squinting her pockmark eyes as though against a fierce sun. "Before I met you," she asked with a certain delicacy, "did you sort of . . . fall down? Maybe on your head?

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

Are you dippy, and all that sort of thing? Bats in the belfry—what? My word!" Marlowe stepped nearer to him and spoke in a lower voice. "Suppose, Mr. Warwick

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one? I asked, deathly curious now. Ahhhh, he complained. Pincas Huckleburr.

Where were you and your God when he had me down in the snow-what return must I give you for that?

But what, demanded the jawbones, with sinister insistency, is love?

Mercurio, arguing for the discussion's sake, questioning nothing, believing very little, mesmerizing the guardsman as a matter of course, smiled gravely at him.

active acceptance" of God's will: to question with one's mind, to understand with one's intelligence, and to submit with one's heart.

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

my lack of faith was wearing thin

I replaced emotional complexity with visual and intellectual complexity. I questioned everything and looked to logic, science, and intellect for answers.

Can't I be purple?" Lady Alexandra asked. Billie looked at her as if she'd asked to have the Magna Carta revised.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

arrive?" He immediately shrugged

Sometimes I look back on what happened and wonder if it was some kind of stress-induced hallucination. The

Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Why am i here? What's my purpose?

When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a girl, the sky would be pink. 'What about sunrise and sunset?' I'd asked. Dad had looked dumbfounded. 'You kids. You think too much.' It frightened me how shallow the gene pool was that Liam and I were wading in.