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Quotes About Questioning

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.
~ Billy Corgan
Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?
~ Cassandra Clare
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.
~ Cole Porter
People are questioning if Ted Cruz can legally run for president because he was born in Canada. And the last thing we want to do is pave the way for a President Bieber.
~ Conan O'Brien
Everybody can doubt, and they are free to doubt, and I don't want to convince anyone.
~ Csanad Szegedi
That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.
~ Elaine Dundy
In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.
~ Eli Broad
The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.
~ Frank Luntz
And so, yet again, we crush the blossom in our hand, lift our gaze from the tumbling petals, and ask the world, 'Where, then, is this beauty you promised?
~ Steven Erikson
Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?
~ Steven Erikson
Look at these bones we step over. We go as far as we can go, and then we stop. And that is how it is. That is all it is. So…now what?
~ Steven Erikson
Then we're all restless, Withal, because at the very heart, none of us know where we came from. Or where we're going.
~ Steven Erikson
It plagues the young, this need to find reasons for things.
~ Steven Erikson
Everyone saw her as such a capable person, and all the while she asked herself: capable of what? Will I ever find out? When is it my turn?
~ Steven Erikson
Like all men - you hate to say you don't know and leave it at that. You have an answer to every question, and if you don't you make one up." "An outrageous accusation, my dear. It is not a matter of making up answers, it is rather an exercise in conjecture. There is a difference—" "That's what you say, not what I have to listen to. All the time. Endless words. Does a man even exist who believes there can be too many words?" "I don't know.
~ Steven Erikson
You took us, you made us into something, but none of us knows what, or even what for.
~ Steven Erikson
And who is this?' Bugg asked. A shifting of vast stones—now this…this shoving aside of entire mountains. What begins here?
~ Steven Erikson
Did they scalp you?
~ Steven Gould
Create an atmosphere in your classroom that encourages questioning, open discussion and respect for a wide range of beliefs and opinions.
~ Steven Hassan
I don't really doubt – I just want to.
~ Steven L. Peck
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
~ Steven Wright
And soon all our minds will be flat as a pancake, With no room for genius exaltation or heartache. And our children and theirs will preen, smirk and chatter, With not even the sense to ask what is the matter.
~ Stevie Smith
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
~ Stokely Carmichael