Quotes About Questioning

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

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there in bed, wondering why she hadn't moved out

Doubt finds its way into all men's hearts.

The hell of it, Miss- Is your name Wonderly or Leblanc?' She blushed and murmured: 'It's really O'Shaughnessy - Brigid O'Shaughnessy

Nora stopped drinking to ask: "Did Wynant really steal it?" "Tch, tch, tch," I said. "This is Christmas Eve: try to think good of your fellow man.

Land!" shouted Thomas. "Is there food?" asked Tubby Ted.

Exactly," said Slank.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer.

God who protects my people I call upon you to send away the murahaleen. Protect me God protect my family as they run. Oh God of the sky, keep me safe tonight. Keep me hidden, keep me quiet. Oh God of rain, let me find water. Let me not die of thirst. Oh God of the soul, why are you doing this? I have done nothing to ask for this. I'm a boy. I'm a boy. Would you send this to a lamb? You have no right.

Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

If it's like us, why is it somewhere else? Deng asked. Dut

Am I just curious? Or do I want this? And if I did want this, what sort of person am I?

Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what's being presented—challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.

What's a good idea?" is a good question, but only when you're about 80 percent of the way through your thinking! Starting there would probably blow anyone's creative mental fuses.

He narrows his eyes. "Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

there?" "Doubtful. While

A minute of silence ticked by until Natalie said curtly, "What kind of a deal can I get?

You ask me that question two, three years ago I'd say yeah, damn straight you will. Yes sir." He looked out at the crush of people. "You ask me today, I say I don't know. I don't care what court you're in. Supreme Court, traffic court. Things are changing, man. Not just the courts either. Everything. Everybody. Whole goddamn world's changing and I just don't know anymore." They