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Quotes About Questioning

Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS. BY A BOSTONIAN. Crayon marks scar the cover. Lambiase doesn't know what to make of it. His cop brain clicks in, formulating the following questions: (1) Is this A.J.'s stolen Tamerlane? (2) Why would Tamerlane be in Ismay's possession? (3) How did Tamerlane get covered in crayon and who did the coloring? Maya? (4) Why would Tamerlane be in a backpack with Maya's name on it?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Why are you crying?" "I was reading.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Perché piangi?" "Stavo leggendo.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't Breathe or like her Anymore. Maybe tomorrow the tides Will stop. Maybe tomorrow will bring No more rainbows. Maybe tomorrow She will stop Asking useless questions.
~ Gail Carson Levine
Did it matter whether I was a bad hamster or a good hamster? I was still running on a wheel to nowhere.
~ Gail Giles
Democracy might be defined in different ways relating to contexts and interests; however everyone must accept that the universal beauty of democracy is the right to questioning and reasoning, inquiry for truth and justice.
~ Ganga Sagar Pant
Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They may be threatened by some of them. Moreover, it doesn't occur to most adults that there are questions that a child can ask that they can't provide a definitive answer to and that aren't answered in a standard dictionary or encyclopedia either.
~ Gareth B. Matthews
Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
~ Garrison Keillor
Unfettered inquisitiveness, it is clear, teaches better than do intimidating assignments.
~ Garry Wills
Denny je bil skrušen. Zoe je bila skrušena. Eva je bila skrušena. Jaz sem bil zmrcvarjen. Tako zelo smo se približali veli?ini. Vohali smo jo in dišala je kot pe?en odojek. Vsi imamo radi vonj pe?enega odojka. Toda, ali je huje, da ga vohaš, ne da bi se gostil z njim, ali da ga sploh ne vohaš?
~ Garth Stein
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
~ Gary Coleman
The Focusing Question helps you identify your ONE Thing in any situation. It will clarify what you want in the big areas of your life and then drill down to what you must do to get them. It's really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer. As simple as two steps, it's the ultimate Success Habit.
~ Gary Keller
the power to question is the basis of all human progress.
~ Gary Keller
the secret to extraordinary results is to ask a very big and specific question that leads you to one very small and tightly focused answer.
~ Gary Keller
It's really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer.
~ Gary Keller
Curiosities provoke people to investigate further, just as coincidences do. The initial "What's going on here?" reaction doesn't contain the insight, but it starts the person on the road to gaining the insight.
~ Gary Klein
if God is Love, can He also be hate? If God is really perfect Love, then can He also be flawed? If God is a Creator, could He then be vengeful against that which He Himself had created? Once the answer to such questions is clearly seen to be of course not, a long closed door has been nudged open. In the state of semi-dualism, your mind has begun to lose some of its hidden but terrible fear of God.
~ Gary R. Renard
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Ask yourself the "So what?" question. Ask it several times. Where does it lead you?
~ Gary Smalley
When a question is asked that cannot be answered within the common frame of reference, it can be classified as nonsensical, or it can be dismissed as a question that is not appropriate, or the person who is asking the question can expand his or her consciousness to encompass a frame of reference from which the question can be answered.
~ Gary Zukav
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
~ Gautama Buddha
You know what happens when you ask too many questions, Dizzy? Someone will ultimately tell you to shut the fuck up. (Mr. Branch)
~ Brian Azzarello
Science is the enemy of the certain
~ Brian Cox