Quotes About Questioning

In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box? No one had an answer for him, either yes or no.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

What was that education? Question everything, but keep your word. Doubt everything, but never give others a reason to doubt you.

Why are they so stupid?' asked Human. 'Not to know the truth when they hear it?' 'They aren't stupid,' said the Speaker. 'This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe, and those we never think to question. They never thought to question the idea that the original Speaker for the Dead died three thousand years ago, even though they know how star travel prolongs life.

Why don't you speak to me, O Gods! she cried out

Anton: "You're asking me?" Sister Carlotta: "God not being convenient, I ask a fellow mortal.

Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus, but dared not ask for fear the answer would lead to the end of the annual largesse of Christmas.

He doubts everything, and contests each point of theology as if it were required to meet the same tests of logic and consistency that prevail in the world of science." "In other words, he expects your doctrines to make sense.

don't even know why I do what I do. How can I know what other people's true purposes are? There's no hope

If our happiness is the purpose of God," said Alai, "why are so few of us happy?

My assignment from Graff, thought Theresa, is to become an assassin in order to protect my son. And the truly horrifying thing is that I'm not questioning whether to do it, but how. And when.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.

I don't know who God is but if I meet Him anytime soon I'm going to get Him in the corner until He tells me the truth.

Learn advidly. Question it repeatedly. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I've exhausted every possibility.

Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered, Oh God.

Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.

Who is it? said the boy. I dont know. Who is anybody?

The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all. Everybody dont have to have a reason to be someplace. That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference.

What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him.