Quotes About Questioning

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence

Follow the habit of asking, 'How do you know' Never accept opinions as facts. Avoid following free advice. Don't trust information given in a discourteous or slanderous spirit. In asking for information, do not disclose what you wish the information to be.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

Her eyes traveled over the row of Encyclopedia Thaumaturgica, and paused at the gap, one book wide, for volume Q. If Cook threw away volume Q, why is there a gap at all? Shouldn't P and R just be jammed up against each other?

science should be question driven, not methodology driven.

Koskela mihi sie määt? huuteli Rokka. – Jerusalemiin.

Mihin täst sitten ollenka lähdetään? Vissi helvetti ast?

Mut mikä hitto tuol? Mitä hyö raahaat? Onk hyö tappant Koskelan?

Sitten hän kysyi Vanhalalta virallisen tärkeällä äänellä: – Korpraali Vanhala. Oletteko te lammas vai suomalainen sotamies? – Minä olen mailman paras metsätaistelija, hihi… – Niinpä niin. Honkajoki huokasi muka surkean alistuvasti. – Yksi toivo minulla vielä on. Kunpa sota loppuisi ja pääsisi isoon taloon sonniksi.

You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are.

I would rather live with unanswered questions than unquestioned answers,

What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.

The sound of Kiser's departing car had hardly died away before Romey with a stony glint in the depths of his eyes asked, "Mary Call, how long is temporary?" I said, "Romey, there is the dictionary over there. It's smarter than I am. Ask it.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

Goddamn! Goddamn!" he said. "That's crazy. Who told you that? Who is 'they'? They a motherfuckin' lie whoever they is if they told you somethin' like that.

Political correctness is destroying our freedom. We have become the new puritans, demonising those who dare to question the official line on anything. As Udo Ulfkotte put it: 'We are the heirs of the Puritans who had a nasty habit of picking on little old ladies, demonising them and then burning them at the stake.

There is great wisdom in asking, "How can I get out of this?" There is even greater wisdom in asking, "How did I get INTO this?

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?

The important question is not 'Why was I saved?' but 'What will I do with the life that the gods decided to spare?'" I was taken aback by his intensity, especially since he always seemed so calm and unflappable. "You are a Stoic, then," I muttered, remembering Euphronius's lessons.

This was fishy, and more "old tuna in the heat" fishy instead of "damn good fishsticks" fishy.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Why should beauty be suspect?