Quotes About Questioning

Well, well—be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.

Do you honestly think we would have left something so important to the Italians?

In time, you will come to regard my questioning with a certain pained amusement; in time, get so you would hardly find it possible to live without my joke and me.

People who thought there was a bubble, and that prices were too high, find themselves questioning their own earlier judgments, and start to wonder whether fundamentals are indeed driving the price increase.

Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.

Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that "everyone knew" deserved close examination. Being

Estúpidos cretinos! —espetó la Zahorí, que vibraba de pies a cabeza, con ojos destellantes y mejillas coloreadas—. ¿Por qué razón, en nombre de la Luz, os habéis escapado corriendo?

Always consider the possibility your assumptions are wrong

Why did you come up here, Sheriam Sedai?" For

wind stiffened as dusk closed in. Mat began to ask querulously

gaze. It had been a rhetorical question, and she was astounded

startedasking

It is that same fear, the fear of ostracism that causes people to conform and not question commonly accepted opinions or popular trends.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

Dad? What? A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. What should I be when I grow up? The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. Honest, I finally say.

May, will you please, kindly DIG it, he remembered one of them saying, and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW.

Dad?" "What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us. "What should I be when I grow up?" The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest," I finally say.

curar males para que la gente pueda vivir más tiempo; sólo los locos se preguntan para qué. Uno vive más tiempo con el objeto de vivir más tiempo. No existe otro propósito. Eso es lo que dice el fantasma.

I'm not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that's why I talk so much.

Cómo he llegado a esto? ¿Cuándo se volvió tan importante para mí el hecho de pisar terreno sólido y familiar? ¿Cómo he llegado a convertirme en uno de esos tipos que compran antologías tipo lo mejor de que anuncia en la televisión a altas horas de la noche?

Oh, Anne, why did you do it?     It was the one question I had never meant to ask.     For a moment she did not answer. Then, without raising her eyes, she said in a low voice, He wasn't like anybody else. Not anybody else I'd ever known. And I love him. I love him, I guess. I guess that is the reason.     I sat there and reckoned I had asked for that one.

I have known time and distance, but not why I am here.

They get up every day and go work for money, not taking the time to ask the question, 'Is there another way?