Quotes About Questioning

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it, Tess? murmured Abraham through his tears.

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.

The chief pleasure connected with asking an opinion lies in not adopting it.

Why - what the name - began her father. I thought you went out to get the parsley!

A police station is a damn poor place to question anybody that you don't need to scare.

Han dejado ya de llorar los corderos, Clarice?

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Question with boldness even the existence of God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?

Fish gotta swim Bird gotta fly Man gotta sit and say Why why why

One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.

my desire of argument and religious discussion implied a fundamental and utter lack of faith

Had I ever read the Life of St. Bernard by Dom Ailbe Luddy?—

You need your intelligence and your skepticism.

It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

so claim'd are the Surveyors in their contra-solar Return by Might-it-bes, and If-it-weres, - not to mention What-was-thats.

C'è questo lungo collegamento a margherita di truffatori e di truffati, di fottitori e di fottuti? E se le cose stanno così, io chi è che fotto?

Doubt is the essence of Christ.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

The discovery that some of the behaviors in your family that you thought and felt were wrong or abnormal actually were abnormal is tremendously freeing and validating, and helps you learn to trust yourself. Don't be afraid to ask if something seems normal to someone else. Even though dysfunctional family dynamics are usually well-hidden behind the closed doors of many families, almost everyone experiences them.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

I ask too many personal questions and am always poking into the out-of-the-way places.