Quotes About Questioning

The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is truth?

So," he said. "What's the difference between me and a whore?" He swallowed. "Am I a whore?" "No more than every married woman.

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something haven happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.

Forming impressions of the CEO's character, intelligence, energy and trustworthiness can be gleaned using a variety of questioning techniques. Intellectual honesty can be tested by asking the CEO to pick out what he or she thinks is important. To unsettle the more promotional CEOs, we like to ask what is not working and wait to see whether they have given the matter much thought.

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again?

Moses had thought that it was already a strange world that made him a slave to a white man, but God had indeed set it twirling and twisting every which way when he put black people to owning their own kind. Was God even up there attending to business anymore?

As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other: do I have to swallow it?

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64

Don't waste your time asking somebody else's question.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación

All night I see that abandonment is me, that the sole sobbing voice is me. We can search with lanterns, cross the shadow's lie. We can feel the heart thud in the thigh and water subside in the archaic site of the heart. All night I ask you why. All night you tell me no .

Quiero saber por qué es bello vivir, quiero saber que vivir es bello. Quiero saberlo para mí. Hasta ahora he sabido de la vida en cuanto maldición y hecho casi insoportable.

qué esperar?, ¿cuándo?, ¿hasta dónde?, ¿por qué?, ¿para qué? Su interior se deshacía paulatinamente como un grifo mal construido. Algo goteaba horrorosas partículas de dolor. Algo, algo.

Qué haré conmigo? Porque a Ti te debo lo que soy

Elevo los brazos y caigo en el vacío. ¿Qué hacer? ¿Qué vivir? ¿Cuánto? ¿Cómo? ¿Dónde? Y… ¿por qué?

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.