Quotes About Questioning

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Every father says the same thing: "Where's your mother?"

Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused.

Hey, Ocean Eyes," my father said. "Where'd you go on us?

Doubt is the father of invention.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.

You know, so often we think we have each step figured out. And then when one thing doesn't go our way, we begin to question, we being to fear what our next step will be.

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

One of the worst feeling in the world is having to doubt something you thought was unquestionable.

I know everything happens for a reason, but sometimes I wish I knew what that reason was.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place, when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see.

This can't be life.

You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

What happened to you always being there. Tell me where you are now.

but more potent, which is not content with questioning the body but can command it, a febrifuge of the same order as the modern aspirin, which had not then come into use. We had not shaken the thermometer down below 99.5, and hoped that it would not have to rise from there

putting adroitly provocative questions to casual witnesses, bribing servants, listening at doors, seemed to him now to be precisely on a level with the deciphering of manuscripts, the weighing of evidence, the interpretation of old monuments—so many different methods of scientific investigation with a genuine intellectual value and legitimately employable in the search for truth.

Una vez la niña preguntó. _La vida va a ser así para siempre? _No, no - le contestó, definitiva, la madre -. Si fuera así, Dios no nos habría puesto sobre esta tierra. y si lo hizo, fue por algo. Espérate, ya sabremos sus razones.