Quotes About Questioning

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she's not seen in such a long time? It seems to me that in situations like this, we're all wondering the same thing: I'm still me; are you still you? A

Gee, color her suspicious, but if he kept this up, she was going to start thinking he wasn't a mall security guard at all.

Well, that's what they said. (It could have just been indigestion, though.)

Why had their lives turned out this way, and not another way?

I don't know exactly what I am, but I am curious enough to go find out!

Was I tapping into a universal yearning for God? Did I have a chemical imbalance? Or did I just need to get laid?

You might spend your whole life following your curiosity and have absolutely nothing to show for it at the end—except one thing. You will have the satisfaction of knowing that you passed your entire existence in devotion to the noble human virtue of inquisitiveness. And that should be more than enough for anyone to say that they lived a rich and splendid life.

I'm not sure anybody out there really knows what they're doing. Apparently not

el fracaso tiene una función. Te pregunta si de verdad quieres seguir haciendo cosas».

How did they let the world get so out of control?" "I don't know, honey. But I'm not sure anybody out there really knows what they're doing.

why' is a hard question to answer in any language

But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years--working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums, and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to only be about duty?

Asking no further questions is the song of my people.

Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree to marry me while you were gone. Did you know? Some didn't actually make it to the alter, but that's another problem altogether. Perhaps you'd like some pointers on-

You've used me to punish yourself, haven't you? He watched dawning realization spread over her face, a confirmation more positive than anything she could ever say, and that arrow twisted deep in his chest. Yet still he had to ask the last question. Am I anything to you but a punishment?

Temperance pursed her lips, her eyes firmly fixed on the growing mound of chopped turnip roots. "Do you think anyone really likes turnips?" "Temperance…" Temperance poked the tip of her knife into a white cube and held it up. "They are very filling, of course, but really, when was the last time you heard someone say, 'Oh, I'm so very fond of turnips'?

I don't know what God intends, or what qualifies Him to forgive me,' Sobran said

They got me reading people like physicist David Bohm with new and passionate interest. He helped me because he turned the essential question upside down. I'd been asking, since everything in the world looks so separate, how can the connections that would seem to be required by this evidence be possible? On the other hand, Bohm was asking, since everything in the world is interconnected, how come everything looks so separate?

some people were never satisfied by facts they had not themselves discovered.

Virginia had, however, long felt that her mother was not truly religious—not truly and seriously, as she and Stephen were. No doubt she thought she was, and perhaps she was, in some queer way; but were queer ways of being religious permissible? Weren't they as bad, really, as no ways at all?

Ellis Peters

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.