Quotes About Questioning

Que sçay-je? (What do I know?)

There is no God.

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me.

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all.

Madness, in which the values of another age, another art, another morality are called into question but which also reflects - blurred and disturbed, strangely compromised by one another in a common chimera - all the forms, even the most remote, of the human imagination.

He took her hand from her head and held it in his. Your beauty could make a rose blush. Are you... drunk?

Children just feel emotions and their reasoning mind doesn't interpret or question them. This is why children accept certain people and reject other people.

Como tenemos miedo de pedir una aclaración, hacemos suposiciones y creemos que son ciertas; después, las defendemos e intentamos que sea otro el que no tenga razón. Siempre es mejor preguntar que hacer una suposición, porque las suposiciones crean sufrimiento.

Why am I alive when so many others are dead?

Jak to si? mog?o sta?? - machinalnie zapyta?a Ma?gorzata, wspominaj?c jednocze?nie szepty w trolejbusie. -A diabli wiedz? jak! - nonszalancko odpowiedzia? rudy.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love

Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.

A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge, nor proclaims truths.

Every novel says to the reader: "Things are not as simple as you think." That is the novel's eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it's either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless.

to be absolutely modern means: never to question the content of modernity and to serve it as one serves the absolute, that is, without hesitation.

love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

El que empieza dudando de pequeñeces termina dudando de la vida como tal.

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.