Quotes About Questioning

At this point the judge took over the questioning. Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi? he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? It is a history book, isn't it? asked the judge.

When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: "According to tradition..." or "According to the legislature..." Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated.

Wilson was not only antiblack; he was also far and away our most nativist president, repeatedly questioning the loyalty of those he called "hyphenated Americans." "Any man who carries a hyphen about with him," said Wilson, "carries a dagger that he is ready to plunge into the vitals of this Republic whenever he gets ready."27 The American people responded to Wilson's

What divine being had permitted this? This love? This hurt? This separation? Allah? Buddha? God?

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

I have no talent for certainty.

Do you not want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently.

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?

Good God! Willloughby, what is the meaning of this? -Marianne Dashwood

Research shows that the average elementary teacher may ask as many as 348 questions a day (Sadker & Sadker, 1982), whereas the students may not ask any.

It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet.

Hans was never good at giving proper answers. He always had different answers in his head, odd answers, answers that his teachers and his parents and his grandmother and even his crazy grandfather seemed to think were wrong. But they weren't wrong answers, they were just his answers. He wondered suddenly what the Ice Maiden would do if he gave her a wrong answer. And, thinking this, he found he couldn't open his mouth at all.

He squinted at me. What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

By the time I questioned Briggs late this afternoon, there were only two dogs that hadn't been adopted. And he wanted to keep those two. And he said to tell you he got the job. He's the new weatherman on the evening news. Some cable station. I didn't get all the details. Might have been the local Fox affiliate.

Do you believe in God?" I asked Lula. "Fuckin' A I believe in God. Don't you believe in God?" "I believe in something. It's vague.

And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say.

you ever wonder why people get out of bed in the morning? why do they bother? why not just drink turpentine?

What was the point of the Devil if there was a God like that? Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this fucking world. Or maybe there was just nothing at all.

U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.

When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me there. Kids pick up on things if you're interested and inquisitive. I was seeing things that were not in line with what I'd been taught about Jesus. It didn't jive with me.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.