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Quotes About Questioning

And Master --or Mister--Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what.
~ Charles Dickens
It was characteristic of this lady (as of some other people before her time and since) that whenever her original proposition was questioned, she exaggerated it.
~ Charles Dickens
What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?
~ Charles Dickens
But I like business,' said Pancks, getting on a little faster. 'What's a man made for?' 'For nothing else?' said Clennam. Pancks put the counter question, 'What else?' It packed up, in the smallest compass, a weight that had rested on Clennam's life; and he made no answer.
~ Charles Dickens
and a small return for your good offices." "Do you think I particularly like you?" "Really, Mr. Carton," returned the other, oddly disconcerted, "I have not asked myself the question." "But ask yourself the
~ Charles Dickens
karars?zl?klar içinde bocalayarak ne anlat?lmaz i?kenceler çektim, Ulu Tanr?m! Aylarca her ak?am kendi sorular?m?, "Hay?r," diye yan?tlad?m; gene de ertesi sabah kendi kendime ayn? konuyu tazeleyip ayn? sorular? sormaktan kendimi alamad?m.
~ Charles Dickens
they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born. It
~ Charles Dickens
Are you sure we are making the most of it?
~ Emily Dickinson
The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1861
PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."
~ Isaac Asimov
Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you've been up to.
~ Author Unknown
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
~ Gore Vidal
There is much perplexity and sadness about whether a soul taken from this earth out of the midst of life not lived for God, and spending its last moments in delirium, can be saved. But why does not comfort come to such questioners from the thought of the power of the God who made that soul, to speak to it even in delirium? It is not strange that God should speak to one of his creatures now any more than that he spoke to Adam or to Moses.
~ Grace Livingston Hill
Fabiano estirou o beiço, duvidando.
~ Graciliano Ramos
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
~ Graham Chapman
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
~ Graham Greene
When we are not sure, we are alive.
~ Graham Greene
I'm curious about life, period.
~ Graham Nash
Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.
~ Graham Swift
People are tired of this mainstream shit; television and radio is ghastly and the public can smell the corporate meeting. When you watch a show with Simon Cowell, you know no human touch has been near it, that they've carefully engineered the outcome and picked those they're going to humiliate. We live in an age of information glut, but so many people don't question what they're spoon-fed or bother to search for themselves.
~ Greg Proops
way we answer the simple, timeless question Who are we? On a more
~ Gregg Braden
Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?
~ Gregory A. Boyd