Quotes About Questioning

He who fails to question is asking for trouble.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

Your bare feet on the cold floor as you climb out of bed and walk to the window. You are sixty-four years old. Outside, the air is gray, almost white, with no sun visible. You ask yourself: How many mornings are left? A door has closed. Another door has opened. You have entered the winter of your life.

Who am I? And how may I become myself?

Which one is grammatically correct? I never know.

Using my questioning techniques will enable you to unlock that information and use it to present your customers with tailored solutions that go beyond their expectations.

Why did he pick me? There were five other laps present, all of them more friendly than mine. It's that sort of coincidental behavior of cats that upsets people. It raises the question: did he know I was the guy who had to be won over? But won over to what?

That would be an actual miracle," said Lizzie. "I never was sure what I thought about those.

To believe in and reach for the beyond was Lizzie's thing, and it suited her and was beautiful for her, an opinion of Autumn's which she didn't think Lizzie had ever quite believed she held. To ask the beyond some serious questions was Autumn's thing.

The doubt of wonderment is a normal part of a life of faith, and it's spiritually healthy when it drives you to bring your confusion to the One who has no confusion.

When you don't understand what's going on, run to God's goodness rather than questioning whether it exists.

Envy is self-focused; because it's self-focused, it's entitled; because it's entitled, it's demanding; because it's demanding, it tends to judge the goodness of God by whether he has delivered what you feel entitled to; and because it judges God on that basis, it leads you to question his goodness. Because you question God's goodness, you won't run to him for help. Envy is a spiritual disaster.

In his mind, he held up all the artifacts he had collected over the years and wondered about their true value.

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They

And to read is to understand, to question, to know, to forget, to erase, to deface, to repeat--that is to say, the endless prosopopoeia by which the dead are made to have a face and a voice which tells the allegory of their demise and allows us to apostrophize them in our turn. No degree of knowledge can ever stop this madness, for it is the madness of words.

I array the moonlit ceiling with a mosaic of question-marks; How was it I was so lucky to have ever met you?

D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?

Toxic relationships are crazy-making. In them, we question our truths and doubt our reality.

What you mean? Whaih you think Gawd is?' Joe remained sullenly silent. His mother's faith was too stalwart for his comprehension. There was nothing like it in his own soul to interpret it.

He said he didn't need a lawyer because he was innocent." I tried not to grimace, so I just ground my teeth. When you're innocent, you really need a lawyer because of police and prosecution foul-ups. To say nothing of the average citizen's tendency to get scared and confused when being questioned by cops.

thought then, an itchy little one in the back of my brain, as scary as the pop when a ligament tears. Why isn't Victoria Lord my partner . . . in law and in life? -10- True

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Mentalizing virtuously means being authentically interested and curious in exploring the richness of possible realities. Active questioning expresses curiosity, but should not be expected to yield an unequivocal answer, but progress towards a conceptualization of alternatives (Skårderud and Fonagy 2012

I learned from my parents the ability to question, never to trust implicitly those in charge, not to believe the promises made in speeches and never to ignore the atrocious propaganda posters in public places … this kind of propaganda is designed to cause fear, and people who live in fear of a common enemy can be easily manipulated.