Quotes About Probing

What qualifies as a good question? It's one that gets us thinking about something worth thinking about. So one way to identify a good question is what I call the smack-the-forehead test: when you read the question after time has passed, you smack your forehead and say, "If only I had thought of that before!

The therapist should not evade probing for the reasons the patient regards suicide as the only escape from his misery or intolerable life situation. The patient generally has considered alternative solutions but has discarded them as useless. The therapist should re-examine these alternatives with the patient.

Why would anybody want to?

Investigative reporters are natural snoops. - Gabriel Allon

The more so because, among its repetitions, it is always looking for new ways to prick you.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

As a child I would just question things.

In any case, I hadn't gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

Ask me anything,

My only weapon is the question.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

I'm very curious.

I am naturally a very curious person.

by the time your child is born, in April or in May?' My lady's probing eyes moved from my breasts down to my belly. 'Well, shall we say by spring – the croisade will most like be over, and our soldiers of the cross returned. With a fair wind we'll have a king again in England by Eastertide, and I dare swear you'll know by then if you're a widow or a wife.' The

To formulate questions that probe thinking in a disciplined and productive way, we need to understand thinking—how it works and how it should be assessed. It is critical thinking that provides the tools for doing this, for analyzing and assessing reasoning. This is why understanding critical thinking is essential to effective Socratic dialogue.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

That was mere probing, my eye was really turned on an invisible realm far beyond the horizon. What is it to see the invisible? That is the ultimate vision, the denial at the end of all seeing, the eye`s denial of itself.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

It seemed to Whish that any potential crack was worth trying to open," wrote the scientists. "Even a person's face was not sacrosanct. He would fly to the face and clutch hole on the nose arch. He would then hang upside down and peer into the nostrils.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Radoznalost je ?ovekov najopasniji porok.

Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.