Quotes About Questioning

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?

I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Doubt breeds doubt.

An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Great intellects are skeptical.

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Curiosity is a lust of the mind.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

"Que scais-je?" was the motto of Montaigne, As also of the first academicians: That all is dubious which man may attain, Was one of their most favourite positions. There's no such thing as certainty, that's plain As any of Mortality's conditions; So little do we know what we're about in This world, I doubt if doubt itself would be doubting.

Zašto je put do žene tako vijugav i tajan i zašto on sa svojom slavom i snagom ne može da ga pre?e, a prelaze ga svi gori od njega? Svi, samo, on u silnoj i smiješnoj starosti, cijeli svoj vijek pruža ruke kao u snu. Što žene traže?

I jos jednom se javi misao s kojom je sto puta zaspao,nejasna,nikada do kraja domisljena, a uvredljiva i jadna misao: zasto je put do zene tako vijugav i tajan,i zasto on sa svojom slavom i snagom ne moze da ga predje, a prelaze ga svi gori od njega? Svi,samo on, u silnoj i smijesnoj strasti, cio svoj vijek pruza ruke kao u snu. Sta zene traze?

kad bi igra?i ispitivali porijeklo sva?ijeg novca, ne bi se igra mogla nikad ni sastaviti.

Atwater. "So somebody else went through their rooms?