Quotes About Questioning

Questioning is simply more powerful than answering.

Ironically, the best questions are not questions that lead to answers, because answers are on their way to becoming cheap and plentiful. A good question is worth a million good answers. A

Ask a man enough questions, and his belief in his understanding fades before him as does a dream upon waking—unless it is a true understanding.

people believe what they are told. I believe nothing, consider everything.

Life is running backwards. What did I do wrong?

Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.' 'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

Just who am I?" the rough baritone asked in the infuriatingly amused tone one might use with a temperamental child. You're a monster, she wanted to say. A giant—huge and thickly muscled and terrifying. But she flung back her answer like her papa's own daughter. "You're the rebel bastard Glen Lyon.

To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.

What the devil are you doing here? (Morgan) I am sitting in a most uncomfortable chair. (Serenity)

Do all men kiss like that? (Rowena) I know not since I have never kissed a man. (Stryder)

The Child's eyes flick back and forth between Kat and me. 'You are the Ones?' he asks skeptically. Kat catches my eye. 'OMG, does this mean I get to be a One, too?' she teases me.

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country did to you.

You don't want to stir things up by questioning the specialists.And it's terribly difficult to end something that's already been established.You interfere and you're out of a job.No, worse yet, you might be sent to a forced labor camp for ideological deviation.Even if everyone were against it, no one would say it out loud.That's why nothing changes.

There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

Okay, whoa. Back the stinking fruit truck up." She stared at me, "did you just say dying?

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. —REMCO CAMPERT

Has Solan addled your brain?

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

Amico, che amico! Amico 'e chi? - Raccolte a tulipano le cinque dita della mano destra, altalenò quel fiore nella ipotiposi digito interrogativa tanto in uso presso gli Apuli.

The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

Human beings often cling to their certainties for fear that their opinions will be proven false. But a certainty that cannot be called into question is not a certainty. Solid certainties are those that survive questioning. In order to accept questioning as the foundation for our voyage toward knowledge, we must be humble enough to accept that today's truth may become tomorrow's falsehood.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.

To ask oneself in general what exists or what is real means only to ask how would you like to use a verb and an adjective; it's a grammatical question, not a question about nature. Nature, for its part, is what it is, and we discover it very gradually. If our grammar and our intuition do not readily adapt to what we discover, well, too bad. We must seek to adapt them.

Wonder is the source of our desire for knowledge,1 and the discovery that time is not what we thought it was opens up a thousand questions.