Quotes About Questioning

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Can we have one day when we don't have to talk about the meaning of life? -I don't think we ever talk about anything else.

What's the point of anyone's search for answers? The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

I would like to call upon his friends everywhere to consider how they have come in so short a time to view this matter in a way so entirely different from their former belief; to ask whether they are not being borne along by an irresistible current--whither, they know not.

Because we cannot be skilled at thinking unless we are skilled at questioning, we strive for a state of mind in which essential questions become second nature. They are the keys to productive thinking, deep learning, and effective living.

If God wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a book. You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in a book.

I sensed it was finally safe to ask the question without seeming like an ingrate. God? Where were you? For 107 days where were you? Where were you in my unconsciousness and where were you in that hospital room when I wanted to feel your presence with fireworks and explosions of emotions and supernatural palpability? Where were you, God? [...] I was there, my child, [...] I was the peace, I was the breath, I was the comfort.

When i look into your eyes There's nothing there to see Nothing but my own mistakes Staring back at me Asking whyyyy?!?!

Was our life together that unbearable?

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.

Sometimes it's hard not to question. We spend our lives taking down the bad guys, trying to bring order to a world where injustice wins out more often than not. But neither can we blame God for man's choices. That's what always seems to help me hold on to my faith. The reality of God is bigger than the failings of man." "It's

People try and make out there's a greater purpose, a secret meaning, that it all means something. And it doesn't.

A hug is not always the right answer, you know. But as she felt his arms around her, his warm breath against the crown of her head, she thought that it might not be an answer, but it was certainly better than yet another question.

She wants to ask Pat why she didn't plan it that way. She was clever and had ambitions. Why did she get pregnant at twenty? Why didn't she go back to university afterwards? But she doesn't. Instead, she slides the photo back

But I hadn't known what love was. And I wondered how you could ever be sure, when you thought you loved someone, if you really did.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all... I went through the stage of asking myself, 'Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can't be.' So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.