Quotes About Questioning

Every healthy person hungers. To know things for himself. Form his own questions, test his own ideas. Funny how a person's own family is often the first to punish him for that.

Many times I've lied, many times I've listened, many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

The point of an interrogation is not to get a confession. A successful interrogation, Duncan once told Eve, is when you walk out of the room with any information, no matter how small, that advances the investigation.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Oh God, you make the ones like Brother James who never question, and you make the ones like Esau who never believe, and why do you have to make the in-between ones like me? But

Are you who I think you are?

Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.

Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind.

Being curious is the most important part of being a journalist. It might be the most important part of being anything.

being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone.

I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

Questions show an inquisitive mind.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!

Mr. Herman, you're wearing glasses. Were you wearing them on the morning of March first?" "Yes, I was." "And what is your vision when you're wearing your glasses?" "Twenty-twenty." "Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder?" "No. Never." "Thank you. That's all I have, Your Honor.

Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we've gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We've forgotten that we still don't know what we're surviving for.

Working to establish a more comfortable style of survival has grown to feel complete in and of itself as a reason to live, and we've gradually, methodically, forgotten our original question … We've forgotten that we still don't know what we're surviving for.' Out

I don't understand," said the scientist, "why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves." "How curious," said the lemming. "The one thing I don't understand is why you human beings don't.

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