Quotes About Questioning

Am I this? Are these mine? These people? These insane people?

Is it that?" she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, "not being sure of that 'someday'? Or is it not being sure of having that 'somebody'?

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

when you courageously believe in the power of doubt instead of the power of God, you much see the works of doubt and least see the works of God

Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Something else," he told Atkins. He stood with his nose an inch away from the sergeant's, hands stuffed deep in the pockets of his coat. "What does Lucifer mean?" "Light Bearer." "And what is the stuff of the universe?" "Energy." "What is energy's commonest form?" "Light." "I know." And with that, the detective walked away, listing slowly through the squad room and down the stairs. He didn't come back.

They said, "What sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe." —John 6:30–31 "You do not believe although you have seen." —John 6:36–37

Yeah, hello and good-bye," Karras growled. "Who are you and what the fuck are you doing in my room?

William Peter Blatty

His eyes tight, his head angled in surmise, Karras rose and stared down at the priest, demanding huskily, "Who in the hell are you, pal? Who are you?" The soft

Why you do dis to me, Dimmy?

didn't," Chris told him. "She was also sedated when last we spoke?" "Yes, she was." "I thought I saw her at her window that day." "Well, you're mistaken." "It could be. Perhaps so. I'm not sure." "Listen, why are you asking all this?" "Well, a clear

Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us

this making you nauseous a little?

why would an eye want to form?

And blanket skepticism can lead one as far astray as blanket credibility can.

Never assume the obvious is true.