Quotes About Questioning

TO OOCH IS TO ask, Why predict something we can test? Why guess when we can know?

Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?

Later I would ask, "Why did you save me, why?" The serpents never answered. What answer is there for love.

Come, let me know whether thou art a creature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

For is prayer not disobedience? The questioning of God's order?

Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what its told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people who ask questions.

Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.

The sweetness of the blackberries revealed itself incompletely, changing and deepening until it dissolved from the back of the tongue with the maddening hint of a greater remainder. He was left with a question he could not phrase, and a galaxy of tiny seeds that tantalized the tongue.

Why are we here again?" Derrick asked, his green eyes narrowing into slits. Beads of sweat gathered along the edge of his hair and his hands were trembling. For someone who studied monstrous creatures from the ocean, Derrick seemed surprisingly nervous about the supernatural. Of course, thought Min, if Derrick didn't want to see a vampire squid all he had to do was stay out of the ocean. A ghost could find you anywhere.

Every question, once it's formulated," she writes, "contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions

Los ejecutivos actuales viven con menos claridad y ninguna certeza a largo plazo; los competidores, los clientes e incluso las principales líneas de productos pueden cambiar radicalmente en pocos años. Como resultado, las compañías y sus ejecutivos deben hacerse hoy preguntas que en otro tiempo hubieran parecido estúpidas y poco plausibles: ¿quiénes somos?, ¿qué estamos tratando de lograr?

LaHaye's claim that no historian to date has questioned this prayer book's authenticity is a flat-out lie. Historians began questioning its authenticity almost as soon as its discovery was reported. In fact, it had already been rejected by the Smithsonian Institution even before its discovery was reported.

Only after that final question do you finally get to the fundamental capabilities

I want to be wrong. I want this all to have a reasonable...

Do I look like I could have thrown a goddamn piano out a window?" She waved her hand. "Does he?

Why didn't he show up?

Belly?" he called. "Belly, are you here?

Where the hell is Nina?

You hear it, too?" Walter asked. "Of course I do," she snapped. "It's real!

Che altro se non tempo, fertilità del suolo, morìa di bestie, malattie - volevo strappare la gente al circolo dentro cui era inserita? Dentro cui stava bene, non cercava nient'altro? Al che io, scattando: perché non conosce niente altro. Perché c'è qualcuno che lascia alla gente solo questa specie di domande.

Where can I go. Is it possible to imagine a world, a time, where I would have a place. There's no one I could ask. That's the answer.

La culpabilité de Qadesh l'amenait à se poser des questions auxquelles il ne devait pas répondre dans la précipitation et sans preuve. Un feu étrange, parfois insupportable, le tourmentait: pressé de découvrir la vérité, ne risquait-il pas de la dénaturer en brûlant les étapes?

Who are you, Christina Olson? he asked me once. Nobody had ever asked me that. I had to think about it for a while.