Quotes About Questioning

I propose to you that you'll find answers to your questions by taking just one step beyond the place where others will tell you to stop. Be curious and ask just one more question. Be persistent and insist on just one more consideration. Speak out. Try.

Kay both did and didn't want to ask whose boathouse this was. What stopped her wasn't fear of the answer. It was fear of Michael not wanting to be asked.

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Philosophers view the world to a certain extent in the same way as do alien beings or children. Everything is always completely new. They mistrust strongly ingrained judgments, and, yes, they even mistrust the scientific claims of experts.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

did i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a hill or a ridge and who told me that and who decided stones had no rights for stones can waste away from being denied from being abused and who decided who is the ploughed and who ploughs and why did i not get up and why not go away and what would have happened if i had resisted..

I don't believe in belief.

The next time you hear yourself saying, "I'm just no good at . . . ," ask yourself, "Why not?

I hope you live long enough for something else big to shock you and make you question everything like it did me. It's uncomfortable at times to stare into the truth when it goes against what you think you know, but in the end, you'll feel more satisfied.

A certain kind of hunger. To know what happened and at least ask why. Because the tikkun can't start until everyone asks what happened — not just the Jews but everybody.

I was still disoriented, and having a moment where I wondered if hey, maybe all the humans were right for once and this was a terrible idea.

She watched me search for seven minutes and forty seconds, then said, "Can I ask you a question?" I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always "no" or just give in to the inevitable? I said, "Is it contract-relevant?" Big, adolescent human sigh noise. "I just want to understand something." I gave in to the inevitable. "Yes.

Why does it look like a person?" I said, "I ask myself that sometimes." Over the comm loudspeaker, Dr. Ratthi said, "It is a person!" In the background, I heard Overse whisper, "Ratthi, get off the comm!

In a voice soft and deep as night, she said, "Where is he?" Moon's breath caught in his chest. Leaving, he thought, turning for the door. He would have made it, but Stone was fast even as a groundling, and caught his wrist.

Why is this ship so old and shitty?

Where the fuck was TranRollinHyfa?

With a grimace that was probably supposed to be a sneer, he asked, "What do you want?

Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

You appear dangerous to people when you question their values, beliefs, or habits of a lifetime. You place yourself on the line when you tell people what they need to hear rather than what they want to hear. Although you may see with clarity and passion a promising future of progress and gain, people will see with equal passion the losses you are asking them to sustain.