Quotes About Questioning

There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

Zij bewoog niet, stond stil en staarde en vroeg zich af, of dit sterven was.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery."

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

Learn to treat doubt as a friend, not the enemy, and thank it for questioning you.

We seldom sit down and question our beliefs. For instance, I could ask myself: "Why do I believe that it's difficult for me to learn? Is that really true? Is it true for me now? Where did that belief come from?

We seldom sit down and question our beliefs. For instance, I could ask myself: "Why do I believe that it's difficult for me to learn? Is that really true? Is it true for me now? Where did that belief come from? Do I still believe it simply because a first-grade teacher told me so over and over? Would I be better off if I dropped that belief?

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

Unbelievable. I don't

Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more noble than they actually were. All to manipulate public opinion, to manufacture a common purpose or enemy. And the cornerstone of a really great movement? A powerful symbol. Take away or tarnish that and everything starts to crumble, everything's questioned.

Waldo? What was that? thought Beauvoir. Some

This doesn't feel right, patron.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

Ik lag op mijn arm tot er geen gevoel meer in zat en toen tilde ik hem op (met mijn nietgevoelloze arm) en legde hem op mijn borsten. Ik wilde weten hoe het voelde om een vreemde hand op je borsten te hebben. Het was wel aangenaam, maar wat weet ik er nou van? Ik zit vol rare verlangens om helder te kunnen denken. Moet ik mijn beha aan naar het feest?

Mi értelme Shakespeare-nek? Tudom, hogy zseni meg minden, de állandóan csak károg. - De csitt, mi fény nyilall az ablakon? A rohadt Hold, az isten szerelmére. Szedd össze magad, Vili!

Until proven innocent, I regard all "gardenias" as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" you kept asking over and over, the other time, when you were going to London. "I'll do macrame, punk." "Whatcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?" "You really think I need you that bad?" "Yes," you said. A simple Nebraska statement.

Oh, Mel, what am I going to do? Quit teaching? Travel? Get a doctorate? Commit suicide? Where did that thought come from?

A lo que me refiero es que ahora estoy aquí por un tiempo indefinido, pero ¿luego qué, adónde iré? (Del cuento Panteón de Dolores)

Solo gli imbecilli non hanno dubbi" "Ne sei proprio sicuro?" "Non ho alcun dubbio!

Truth may resolve doubt, but it has never been an analgesic.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. Lucille Clifton

I don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions." #LucilleClifton