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Quotes About Questioning

Who is it that can tell me who I am?
~ William Shakespeare
Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
~ William Shakespeare
How now, spirit! Whither wander you?
~ William Shakespeare
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?
~ William Shakespeare
A tko si ti, što tu pod plaštem no?i U tajne moje misli prodireš?
~ William Shakespeare
Do you know me, my lord?' Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
~ William Shakespeare
When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles
~ William Shakespeare
But in the beaten way of friendship what make you at Elsinore?
~ William Shakespeare
What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire, That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth And yet are on't? - Live you, or are you aught That man may question? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
~ William Shakespeare
What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night so stumblest on my counsel?
~ William Shakespeare
How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd? Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
~ William Shakespeare
But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence
~ Winifred Holtby
I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?
~ Winston Graham
By what process could the slaughter of ten million men and the destruction of one-third of the entire savings of the greatest nations of the world have ushered in a Golden Age?
~ Winston S. Churchill
The most important word in our planet's lexicon is why. We suspect this is true of other galaxies too.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
How should we live? someone asked me in a letter. I had meant to ask him the same question. 0 likes
~ Wislawa Szymborska
Remarkable. A hanged bird. A hanged sparrow. The eccentricity of it clamored with a loud voice and pointed to a human hand that had torn into the thicket—but who? Who hanged it, why, for what reason? .
~ Witold Gombrowicz
where was she sleeping? Sleeping? As soon as I asked myself that, I became someone walking toward her in the night, down the hallway, barefoot, in just my shirt and pants, the tiny, just-a-tad twirl-up of her lip, slippery and reptilian, together with my cold and disagreeable rejection and estrangement from those I had left behind in Warsaw, drove me coldly toward her swinish lust which, somewhere here, in this sleeping house . . .Where was she sleeping?
~ Witold Gombrowicz
i tylko jedno mnie dr?czy?o: czy Fryderyk to zauwa?y?? Czy wiedzia?? Fryderyk?
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Mnie wiÄ™c nie wolno byÅ'o siÄ™ przyglÄ…da? i staraÅ'em siÄ™ nie widzie?, ale, majÄ…c przed sobÄ… Fryderyka, który siedziaÅ' obok niej na Å'aweczce, znów natrÄ™tnie zapytywaÅ'em siebie: czy widziaÅ'? Czy wiedziaÅ'? I czyhaÅ'em na jedno chocia?by spojrzenie jego, z tych niby obojÄ™tnych a przeÅ›lizgujÄ…cych siÄ™ chyÅ'kiem, Å'akomych.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
~ Woody Allen
Harriet, co my takiego z?ego zrobili?my? - Nigdy nie spojrzeli?my w twarz rzeczywisto?ci.
~ Woody Allen
Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
~ Yann Martel