Quotes About Questioning

Who am I who sits here? What is it that I want?

Who Am I? Why am I here?

The thinking few is right. But not always.

Cui ii e dat sa traiasca un "de ce" indura aproape orice "cum".

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

What, is THAT it? Is that all there is to life, to MY life, to MY existence? And even the young can

It ain't necessarily so—The things that you're liableTo read in the Bible—It ain't necessarily so.

Better to live in doubt than to die in certainty.

To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really see what the big deal is about getting to the Moon with the computers and the mid-course-corrections. I know you are a bunch of engineers, and you know better than I do, but I ask you ... once you get there beyond the atmosphere, do you or do you not see the Moon?

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, "So? Did you learn anything today?" But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

It is not foolish to ask a question of the world. We of Vlar-rei make songs or our questions. It is only foolish to want answers.

Who knows where a cat goes?" he said philosophically.

What if it were as they say? If, while I believe I am writing in fun, what I write were really dictated by the extraterrestrials?

The living of Laudomia frequent the house of the unborn to interrogate them: footsteps echo beneath the hollow domes; the questions are asked in silence; and it is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come.

Polo: "You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours." Khan: "Or the question it asks you, forcing you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx.

Kentliler sormu? olmal?: "Neden korkuyorsun, ruhumuzun ?eytan'?n eline geçmesinden mi?" "Hay?r, ona verecek ruhumuz olmamas?ndan.

Chissà se l'amo? È un dubbio che m'accompagnò per tutta la vita e oggidì posso pensare che l'amore accompagnato da tanto dubbio sia il vero amore.

The courage not to believe in anything.

Why is there something, rather than nothing?" is a question that anyone can ask.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.