Quotes About Questioning

Who told you I was a musician?

In a gray area, you don't have to provide an answer. And I don't want to. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, well, here's the answer. I don't want to make a comedy that's like, this is how to be a Muslim.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

I don't consider myself to be that credulous.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

I'm a naturally curious person.

You think if he did, things might change? I don't know, he said. That's the pity of it, Rhonda said. Nobody does.

They said God always had a plan. Rhonda couldn't see what this plan was other than a punishment.

What? He can't possibly mean to—

When at last he could lift his head, he asked, "What have you done?" "What have I done?" She lifted a mocking brow. "Why, I've kidnapped the marquees of Northcliff." "You dare to admit it?" Inch by painful inch, he dragged himself onto the cot. "Admitting to it is the least of my sins. I did it.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?

A lifemate. After all these centuries, after never believing. Why in the world would he be chosen for such a thing? Out of all the Carpathian males he knew, men who religiously followed the rules, why would he find a lifemate? He was practically an outlaw.

Is he all right?" His voice was very soft, but commanding all the same. Mikhail was authoritative no matter the circumstances.

Rick bowed his head. He didn't pray much—usually, he figured if God was even there, the state of the world made it pretty clear he wasn't listening to the typical thirteen-year-old's prayer

Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].

I am so made that I cannot believe.

To the dumb question Why me? the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

por qué iban «ellos» a molestarse con el tedio de la existencia humana, y menos aún con el del gobierno humano?

And do you think that unto such as you A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew God gave a secret, and denied it me? Well, well—what matters it? Believe that, too! —THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM (RICHARD LE GALLIENNE TRANSLATION)

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not? The

Christopher Hitchens

What is one ever doing anywhere?