Quotes About Questioning

What was the correct procedure here? Was he supposed to kiss me? Was I supposed to let him? Had that been the real price of my salad?

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

As a general principle, it is probably better to do more clarifying than less, even when you think you do understand what people are saying. All too often, people think they understand what other people are saying when, in fact, they do not. Also, asking a specific question doesn't mean you automatically get a specific answer. Both the Whiner and the No Person tend to speak in sweeping generalizations.

Who really will be taking? And who will be giving? Whose pleasure will be ultimate? And does any of this really matter?

Dil ko kya ho gaya khuda jane Kyoon hai aisa udas kya jane

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

How are you feeling, Jack?" Barbossa asked solicitously. "Ill? Slightly unwell? Horribly unwell? Close to death? How close to death?

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

Only the madman is absolutely sure.

Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

A four year old girl was overheard whispering in her newborn baby brother's ear: "Baby," she whispers, "tell me what God sounds like. I'm starting to forget." -- Between the Dreaming and the Coming True

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?

Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And if it is round, will the King's command flatten it? No, I will not sign.

If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life?

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?

Two Kinds of Failure A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, THE GAY SCIENCE

Your first task is to look at those emotions that are continually infecting your ideas and decisions. Learn to question yourself: Why this anger or resentment? Where does this incessant need for attention come from? Under such scrutiny, your emotions will lose their hold on you.