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Quotes About Questioning

Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.
~ Claudio Magris
so it was hard to believe that establishing once and for all that there was no God could ever be done definitively. But if it were possible…would Leonard even mind at this point? Would he truly care if he and Pearl—if Man—meant nothing in the scheme of the universe?
~ Claudio Sanchez
He looked upward toward the night sky and said, "Honestly…was this the best you could do? Truly? Create creatures willing to work themselves into a state where they toss aside all reason? If the answer is yes, then what does that say about you? If the answer is no, then why didn't you put some more effort into it?
~ Claudio Sanchez
But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-
~ Unknown
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
~ Clifford Geertz
West in Buffalo Bayou. Why don't they like that? "Because it casts reasonable doubt on David West's story! "It is unreasonable to believe that a woman was
~ Clifford Irving
There is greed in questioning if you keep on asking the same question.
~ Unknown
Do you need a heartfelt-response for anything?... Use your heart in questioning.
~ Unknown
I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?
~ Clint Eastwood
Je me demande, entre parenthèses, pour qui vous la gardez? Pour un employé à deux mille quatre qui l'épousera et qui lui fera quatre enfants en trois ans?
~ Colette
L'altro tizio era ricoperto di sangue?". "Quasi certamente sì. Tu cosa ne pensi?". Morse annuì. "Magari accidentale?". "Accidentalmente intenzionale. Morse, segnati queste parole".
~ Colin Dexter
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)
~ Colin Dexter
How does one instill curiosity? Without it this 'educational' process is a continual struggle between a student who is trying to get by and a teacher who is trying to catch him at it, neither profiting.
~ Herbert A. Simon
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
~ Hermann Hesse
We learn by doing, and each new experience is part answer and part question.
~ Herminia Ibarra
Priest came with soggy offerings of comfort. God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.
~ Unknown
Who is this? This is me. Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?
~ Hideaki Anno
Ph??ng trình h? chí – Higashino Keigo _"Tò mò có ngh?a là b? kích thích b?i s? hi?u k? mang tính trí tu?. B? m?c s? tò mò là m?t t?i ác. B?i ngu?n n?ng l??ng l?n nh?t giúp con ng??i tr??ng thành chính là s? hi?u k? - Yukawa" - Ph??ng trình h? chí
~ Unknown
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
~ Hilary Mantel
Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too.
~ Hilary Mantel
I believe, but I do not believe enough.
~ Hilary Mantel
And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone.
~ Hilary Mantel
I wonder what I've married into," Morgan Williams says. But really, this is just something Morgan says; some men have a habitual sniffle, some women have a headache, and Morgan has this wonder.
~ Hilary Mantel
what's wrong with you? Or what's wrong with me? Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too.
~ Hilary Mantel