Quotes About Questioning

The modern world may not know how to phrase the question, but it wants its own realistic recipe for Purpose. Competition has done us a lot of good in the last half-century, but one question remains inadequately addressed: "What are we competing for?

Perhaps I would not have rushed back to England if only I'd been told how Colleen died. But it was the kind of news, posing the kind of question, that prevented sitting still. The only thing I could bear was being on the move.

Significaba que, si los judíos estuvieran en el poder en lugar de la Iglesia, ellos también utilizarían a Dios para destruir a los no creyentes? ¿Era inevitable que el poder religioso absoluto llevara aparejada una absoluta crueldad? «Ha-Rakhaman, Padre Nuestro del Cielo, único Dios de todos, ¿por qué permites que se cometan tantas matanzas en tu Nombre?»

Have you considered," Rob said slowly, "how each faith claims that it alone has God's heart and ear? We, you, and Islam—each vows it is the true religion. Can it be that we're all three wrong?" "Perhaps we're all three right," Mirdin said.

The word midrash itself springs from the Hebrew, I'drash , meaning 'to question'. . . . midrash invents alternative aspects of character and event, keeping the possibilities open [ Out of the Garden .

El conocimiento es una riqueza que se puede transmitir sin empobrecerse". Sólo el saber-poniendo en cuestión los paradigmas dominantes del beneficio-puede ser compartido sin empobrecer. Al contrario, enriqueciendo a quien lo transmite y a quien lo recibe.

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

Ben buraday?m sevgili okuyucum, sen neredesin acaba?

Tanr? ya da tabiat mutlak yola girmesini istedi?i yüz ki?i için yüzbin ki?i yaratt? diye, doksan dokuz bin dokuz yüz ki?iden birisi olarak ya?amak neden gerekli, soruyorum?

Ben bir noktaysam... odan?n ortas?nda durdu. ?u anda odan?n kö?egenlerinin kesim noktas?nda bulunuyorum. Bütün kö?elere sesleniyorum: içinizden birinde kalm?? bir tutunamayan var m??

I had learned years ago that despite what so many adults always said, there really was such a thing as a stupid question. I had asked a number of them myself over the course of my life. But, I had also learned that life required asking stupid questions every now and then.

Do you believe? Belief will not save you.

My point is—my question is—how in the world can anyone get married and make babies with things the way they are now?

Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?

Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.

you think they want to wash?" I asked Harry and Zahra.

I heard disbelief and questioning, threats and cursing, honor and disgust.

What was he, he wondered, that he could have anything at all but an end?

His air of innocent questioning confused me. Either he really didn't know what he was saying, or he had a career waiting in Hollywood.

She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.

Pacing from room to room and in each window a different version of a framed woman unable to rest, set against a sky full of beating wings and abandoned directions. Her five chambered heart filling with the panic of birds, asking: What? What if not this?

Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.

impotence. At the same time the ironists always have a world outlook that they proclaim triumphantly, though if one starts badgering and questioning them about the details, it turns out to consist of nothing but trivia and banalities.

What a methodology! It is tacitly assumed that people don't know themselves, but that if you furnish them with questions that are bright enough, they'll be able to figure themselves all out. They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer. And they'll inadvertently reveal to themselves that secret they know nothing of. And that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous—that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.