Quotes About Questioning

No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened...

We really have to get going, Sam said. Can we leave the car here and pick it up later? The monk said, Does a dog have a Buddha nature? Does a fish have a watertight asshole? said Coyote.

Moi?, said I, in perfect fucking French.

He didn't understand religion. It was like heroin or golf: He knew a lot of people did it, but he didn't understand why.

For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

Cuando no tienes buenos argumentos, a veces es mejor darle la vuelta a la tortilla y ponerte a preguntar tú. Lo aprendí en la clase de Introducción a los medios de comunicación.

When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

Do I look dead to you?!

As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

How am I supposed to know which religion is the true religion? he wondered. Just because someone follows a certain faith does not necessarily

What are those?" he asked.

Master." For several minutes, no one spoke. Eragon tried to guess what the elf was thinking, but could glean no information from his masklike visage. Finally, Oromis stirred. "Were you, perchance, given a trinket of some kind in Tarnag, Eragon?

philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Cómo es posible que esta gente viva tranquilamente cuando el sufrimiento a su alrededor es tan evidente?

How am I supposed to know which religion is the true religion? he wondered. Just because someone follows a certain faith does not necessarily mean it is the right path.… Perhaps no one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?

I find myself wondering if I have made the right decision.

know what question he's trying to answer? "I have not the slightest idea. Tenga always had a question he was trying to answer. If he succeeded, he immediately chose another one, and so on. He may have answered a hundred questions since I last saw him, or he may still be gnashing his teeth

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.

Staring down at my trembling hands, I wonder many things.

I wonder if I will die, after all.

What? I ask. I don't get anything about this day. Everything is just off. Are you sure? Am I sure where I live? Yeah. Steeple Drive. Your cabin is on this road? Is it just me, or is everything I'm saying slightly freaking you out?

The years passed unnoticed and unremembered, and one autumn morning I found myself suddenly forty-five years old. It was a time for weighing youthful hopes against mature accomplishment, for it was quite certain that I had by then done all I was ever going to do. Sitting alone at my desk that evening of my forty-fifth birthday I asked that least original of introspective questions: Where had it all gone? And the somewhat less banal question: What, after all, had it been? My

Do I dare. Disturb the universe?