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Quotes About Questioning

Professor Einstein says that time differs from place to place. Can you imagine? If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers, hein?
~ Alan Moore
Because their supremacist perspective is unquestioned—and the supremacists would prefer it remain that way—all questioning of that supremacism by definition will be classed as speculation, and all speculation on that subject will be discouraged. Of
~ Derrick Jensen
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
~ Desmond Morris
Yayati exploits the rule for his own benefit whereas Dashratha enforces the rule so that royal integrity is never questioned. The rule (obey the father) evokes dharma in Dashratha's case, but not so in Yayati's.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.
~ Diablo Cody
To our young selves, though, there is no difference between the small questions and the big ones. We follow our curiosity to the edge of our understanding and then ask whoever is around what lies beyond it. I have spent my adult life fighting to keep what I possessed as a child: the ability to see the biggest questions sitting inside the smallest ones and the willingness to try to answer them.
~ Diana Beresford-Kroeger
A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.
~ Diana Stürm
Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?" Alec: "...God, I think...
~ Diane Chamberlain
So, what is beauty if it isn't Angelina Jolie and Reese Witherspoon? Why do we try to pin it down by categorizing it as absolute? Why limit it at all? Why is classic beauty the gold standard? Why is gold the gold standard? And what is "classic"? What's precious about precious stones? Why are diamonds a girl's best friend? Don't tell me what beauty is before I know it for myself.
~ Diane Keaton
Instead of questioning what is wrong with your child, we encourage you to consider that something may be fundamentally wrong with the diagnostic and education systems that are failing your child
~ Diane M. Kennedy
Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.
~ Dick Allen
Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.
~ Dick Francis
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
~ Diderot
Gehorsam folgt blind, Freiheit hat offene Augen. Gehorsam handelt ohne zu fragen, Freiheit fragt nach dem Sinn. Gehorsam hat gebundene Hände, Freiheit ist schöpferisch.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It hurts body and soul that no day passes without the name of God being doubted and blasphemed.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?"8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sermon in Finkenwalde, 14 March 1937
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
was beginning to wonder if he
~ Dilly Court
Qual ponte, muti chiedemmo, qual ponte abbiamo noi gettato sull'infinito, che tutto ci appare ombra di eternità ?
~ Dino Campana
So then I whispered, 'What is this thing, Lord?' and I began to cry; the tears went like rain goes down on the world without touching the face of Heaven. Suddenly I realized that it was the first time in my life my tears were strange to me because they just went straight forward out of my eyes;
~ Djuna Barnes
Sumnja mi preseca zalet, priznajem.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani?, que significa: Dios mío, Dios mío, ¿por qué me has desamparado? 35 Lo oyen algunos de los circunstantes, decían: Vean cómo llama a Elías.
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Hijo, ¿por qué te has portado así con nosotros? Mira cómo tu padre y yo llenos de aflicción te hemos andado buscando. 49 Y él les respondió: ¿Cómo es que me buscaban? ¿No sabían que yo debo emplearme en las cosas que miran al servicio de mi Padre?
~ Don Félix Torres Amat