Quotes About Questioning

To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.

Socrates. The wise are doubtful, and I should not be singular if, like them, I also doubted.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Here am I, Here are you: but what does it mean? What are we going to do?

Waking Hanging upward into the rushing summer Calling -- Everything is The answer Too fast --

Why am I arguing with a computer?

Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

Su madre? Dónde, señor?" "Muerto." "Hoy?" "Sí. This morning. Questo auroro. Aurora?" Italian again. Italy again, the Via Veneto, the peaches, the girls!

How do you have one eyes?" asked Rosa, gently rocking him to and fro. "Por qué?" "La guerra," he moaned. "It cry, glasseye?" "I told you, it wasn't cheap.

These questions are futile to answer. Behind the answer there is another answer, and an answer behind that answer, and on and on.

If he no longer gave a shit, why did he give a shit?

when real doubt ensues it disrupts our usual behavioural patterns.

Be careful about making assumptions of expertise, ask experts if you can find them, reexamine your assumptions from time to time.