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Quotes About Questioning

the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore
~ Lucy Ellmann
Only that which is apart from my own being is capable of being doubted by me. How then can I doubt of God, who is my being? To doubt of God is to doubt of myself.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.
~ Jodi Picoult
A lot of people have opinions, but I don't think they ever ask themselves why their opinions are what they are.
~ Jodi Picoult
You will ask yourself How come; you will ask yourself What if.
~ Jodi Picoult
But Marice, he rode off to save you, and wound up leaving you behind forever. Is it really worth dying for the person you love? She thinks about it for a moment. That's not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, can you live without her?
~ Jodi Picoult
It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
~ Jodi Picoult
It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.
~ Jodi Picoult
How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?
~ Jodi Picoult
But passive racism? It's noticing there's only one person of color in your office and not asking your boss why. It's reading your kid's fourth-grade curriculum and seeing that the only black history covered is slavery, and not questioning why.
~ Jodi Picoult
And you know I don't believe in God." She moves, blocking my path. "That doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you," she says. My scar tingles. My left eye starts
~ Jodi Picoult
And you know I don't believe in God." She moves, blocking my path. "That doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you," she says.
~ Jodi Picoult
Why?" I asked. "What did you ever do to them?" Josek looked down at me. "I exist," he said softly.
~ Jodi Picoult
Èši-a spus cineva ceva? am întrebat-o. - Nu-s decât o ciuperc?. Gluma asta cazon? era veche È™i pe timpul lui taic?-meu: Sunt È›inut? în bezn? È™i hr?nit? cu rahat.
~ Joe Haldeman
Everything had gone wrong, nothing made sense, why why why why?
~ Joe Haldeman
Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!
~ Joel Osteen
He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.
~ John Adams
In this new life I am condemned to, is there nothing that is not open to doubt?
~ John Banville
I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?
~ John Banville
A wi?c, panie doktorze - odezwa?a si? troch? za g?o?no, radosnym, zdecydowanym tonem gwiazdy filmowej z lat czterdziestych - to wyrok ?mierci czy do?ywocie?
~ John Banville
Having poured my drink, I may not live to taste it, or that it may pass a live man's tongue to burn a dead man's belly; that having slumbered, I may never wake, or having waked, may never living sleep. Having heard tick, will I hear tock? Having served, will I volley? Having sugared will I cream? Having eithered, will I or? Itching, will I scratch? Hemming, will I haw?
~ John Barth
What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.
~ John Berendt