Quotes About Questioning

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.

It seems that the people who question me the most are the ones who've committed the most outlandish or atrocious acts.

Eddie asks, So what next? And Jesus, his eyes dark but laced with a hint of mercy, the thorn scars just barely visible at his hairline, says, Damned if I know.

Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Children, in a very real sense, have beginners' minds, open to wider possibilities. They see the world with fresher eyes, are less burdened with preconception and past experience, and are less guided by what they know to be true. They are more likely to pick up details that adults might discard as irrelevant. Because they're less concerned with being wrong or looking foolish, children often ask questions that adults won't ask.

Alright, who's the wise guy who turned the light out at the end of my tunnel?

How many roads must a man walk down before he admits he is lost?

Jeigu žmogus nekvestionuoja savo visuomen?s dogm? ir stereotip?, savo visuomen?s prietar? ir ?pro?i?, jis n?ra joks intelektualas. Jis gali b?ti krepšinio sirgalius.

Where, exactly, was this hell?

Show me the bastard who come up with this notion that who's running the goddamn show is some grumpy, embittered, sexually frustrated old fart with a long white beard hiding like a gutless coward behind some puffed-up cloud and I'll slice his goddamn balls off.