Quotes About Questioning

Uno de los hombres pregunta «¿por qué azul?». La gente me pregunta eso con frecuencia. Nunca sé cómo responder. No podemos elegir qué o a quién amamos, quisiera decir. Simplemente no elegimos.

Do you think, Daniel," she said to him, rolling over onto her back so that she was able to look out of the window while she spoke, "that we might have reached the end of our story?

Esme straightens up, weighing the pebble in her palm. 'No,' she says. 'Were they burnt or strangled? Witches were strangled to death in parts of Scotland, weren't they? Or buried alive.

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

How many times shall things be over, Father?

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Es bedarf ernstlicher Aufmerksamkeit, unermüdlichen Fragens und Lernens, um das rechte Gebot zu vernehmen und so die unerschöpfliche Güte Gottes in allen seinen Geboten zu erkennen.

Las situaciones de crisis favorecen, en el plano intelectual, este tipo de cuestionamiento: el sentido de la existencia individual depende en primer lugar del modo en que nos relacionamos con el otro.

Ce n'est pas facile de faire du doute son métier. On se brûle vite à côtoyer l'essentiel, et j'imagine qu'on se sent tellement soulagé quand on y renonce. Mais en refusant le doute, on est certain de se priver de la vérité.

What's amazing about this rule is that people don't even know consciously that it exists, yet it is the kingpin that keeps millions of people chained down. The rule is simple, and incredibly insidious: "Thou shalt not question the operating system thou art given!" What's weird is that you can rebel against the system, but you can't question it.

je levais la main et je demandais des explications

He lives at Balbec?" crooned the Baron in a tone so far from interrogatory that it is regrettable that the written language does not possess a sign other than the question mark to end such apparently unquestioning remarks. It is true that such a sign would be of little use except to M. de Charlus.

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve the Faith they owe; when earnestly they seek such proof, conclude, they then begin to faile.

Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1

Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of "blind faith" and "honest doubt.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

John Patrick Shanley

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite - it is a passionate exercise.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

bumper sticker said "I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

Why would a just God allow this to happen? Was it all part of an evolutionary clockwork that God allowed to work through itself, unguided, an enormous experiment of some kind, for good reasons that humans couldn't perceive?

Carver turned away, stepped up to the counter, got a large cup of black coffee, and Lucas thought, Scalding hot coffee. Carver was a big guy, thick through the chest, but moved easily, comfortable with his size. Lucas wondered, if it came to a fistfight, if he could take him; and he decided he could. Lucas watched as Carver got his coffee and crossed to Lucas's table, put the coffee on the table, and sat down and asked, "What is this bullshit?

Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.