Quotes About Questioning

Yes." Claire was tired of his questions, which were made even more grating by his flat, midwestern accent.

Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.

Her only question then had been, Why am I not enough? Now her only question was Why are you such a needy bastard? "I just needed a break," he told her, another old standard.

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

Filosofia se tr?deaz? pe sine atunci când degenereaz? în dogmatism, adic? într-o ÅŸtiin?? fixat? în formule, definitiv?, complet?. A face filozofie înseamn? a fi pe drum; în filozofie întreb?rile sunt mult mai importante decât r?spunsurile, ÅŸi fiecare r?spuns devine o nou? întrebare

How would I know which one I was?

What do you think you're doing?" she asked when Jackson took his own phone out of his pocket. Another chippy woman, Jackson thought with a sigh. Chippy women wherever he went. Chippy mothers who begat chippy daughters and so the circle of chippiness was unbroken.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.