Quotes About Questioning

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

How much weirder, thought Kline, is it possible for my life to get? And then he pushed the thought down and tried to ignore it, afraid of what the answer might be.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

enter." "This is a joke, right?

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

People, Florence thought as she put on her shoes. What do I need them for again?

There would just be... answers. You don't feel wonder at things you know the answer to. Life without wonder seems sad.

One day, her husband slapped her face. When she complained to her father, he told her God gave husbands the right to beat their wives as stated in the verse of Al-Nisa' sura.[152] Then she began to wonder how God could give the right to a husband to abandon and beat his wife … How could that be when Islam forbids beating animals? Are women inferior to animals?

But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each day, and sick to death of seeing people tortured in the name of God. What had happened to these people?

Staying unSpun really boils down to following a few principles... When confronted with a claim, keep an open mind, ask questions, cross-check, look for the best information, and then weigh the evidence.

Un marabutto smise di pregare per interrogarmi. "Esiste un popolo chiamato mericani?" chiese. "Sì". "Dicono che hanno visitato la luna". "E' vero". "Sono blasfemi".

What am I doing here? Rimbaud writing home from Ethiopia

It is when patients begin to throw such things into question-when the what, why, and who of their utterances become problematic to them-that they are genuinely engaged in analysis.

Higher-order thinking draws upon and pulls together smaller pieces of knowledge. The ability of a student to interpret, compare, contrast, differentiate, question, appraise, argue, justify, critique and design relies upon the breadth, depth and strength of the knowledge they are drawing upon and pulling together.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

What have you done with my life?

in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness

Gone?—gone? What means that little word?—What

How now! they shouted; Dar'st thou measure this our god! That's for us. Aye, priests—well, how long do ye make him, then?

these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster — tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?