Quotes About Questioning

Lo que nos hace avanzar es la duda y no la certeza.

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

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

To the very last, the desire to debate, to understand more. To the very last, doubt. This permanent doubt, the deep source of science.

I drink the darkness of disbelief.

He llegado a no verle a la vida más sentido que el de indagar su sentido, aun a sabiendas de que ninguna pista lleva a aclarar nada, fallando en la pesquisa una vez detrás de otra.

Why did you not tell me this earlier?" "Because you never asked. I was waiting to be questioned, but apparently your aversion to me

To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire', 'fundamentalist' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance – is a matter of urgency. The greatest hubris is to ask why 'they' are not like 'us', to accept our cultural biases lazily and without question, and to frame the problem in terms of 'what went wrong?

Did you kill me yet?" "Eat your fucking ice cream.

In the end, if we could ever really pursue the question 'why' to its true headwaters, we might find it is often no more than this: a beginning so trifling that it hardly bears notice. The flip of a switch. The flash of a neurotransmission. Maybe there was always something amiss, like a bulb planted and forgotten that blooms when the season is right. ...A thousand girls could have gotten through my seventh grade and breezed on with a laugh; I didn't.

Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.

Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.

she wondered what she had done to deserve the loneliness that seemed to surround her.

Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

So, in accepting the New Age teachings in the 1960s, had I somehow accepted the very religion that had frightened me so much as a child?

Where's the rest of me?

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,Guilty of dust and sin.But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slackFrom my first entrance in,Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,If I lack'd anything.

Love bade me welcome. Yet my soul drew back Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning, If I lacked any thing.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

I stayed sober for this?

Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.