Quotes About Questioning

Ain't you goin to ax me?" Maureen asked. Ruby snatched her head around to face Maureen. "Lamb, you know anything about a commotion out here?" Ruby cooed. "I don't know nothin about no commotion, but I know somethin about that man yall kilt." Virgil

What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some way inferior, the general population becomes less concerned with how they are treated, even in the face of evidence of cruelty and abuse. In Ireland's case, the thousands of victims of industrial schools bear witness to a society unwilling to question its own comfortable certainties out of a fear that those beliefs might turn out to have been built on sand.

Man born of woman cannot outrun his fate. Better then not to question the Immortals, nor when they have spoken to grieve one's heart in vain. A bound is set to our knowing, and wisdom is not to search beyond it. Men are only men.

That," I said, "is the business of the gods, who made us." "Yes, but for what? We ought to be good for it, whatever it is. How can we live, until we know?" I gazed at him; such desperate words, yet he looked all lit from within. He saw I was paying attention; that was enough to draw him on.

It is grief to a man to look on mysteries he does not understand. To yield unquestioning, not to know too much; that is the wisdom of the god.

Siempre me ha parecido que una de las preguntas más absurdas del mundo es: «¿Estás salvado?». Para contestar uno ha de sonar o bien esquivo y derrotista o demasiado complaciente. ?Creo que yo dije que solo puede esperarse lo mejor, pero a ella le pareció evasivo.

It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.

Nutsawoo come, too?

Lumawoo? Are we there yet?

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know...

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction.

It was depressing that he found it so much easier to question his sanity than my reality.

That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.

If your life isn't working You have to ask why.

Jamás vivirás si te dedicas a buscar el sentido de la vida.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he

Fear makes us curious. Sadness makes us philosophize. ("To be or not to be?" is a daily question for many depressives.)

She took a deep breath, as if the question were something she had to swim under.

Father Christmas?' said Father Vodol, suspiciously. 'It doesn't sound very memorable.

Generally, you don't want to begin conversations with "Why" questions because, as mentioned before, they have a tendency to put people on the defense. It

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Others abide our question. Thou art free.We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,Out-topping knowledge.