Quotes About Probing

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

Doubt is the only appropriate response for human beings.

The solitary mind probes at an ugly thought as a wound, constantly seeing if the pain is less, and in doing so keeps it alive beyond is time.

Writing is investigation.

I've always loved investigations.

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

I'm in the business, as a journalist, of asking tough questions.

But the Lord is in the midst of us,b testing and probing our every motive.

My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I ask too many personal questions and am always poking into the out-of-the-way places.

You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

EFT can be thought of as a postmodern therapy in that EFT therapists help clients deconstruct problems and responses by bringing marginalized aspects of reality into focus, probing for the not-yet spoken, and integrating elements of a couple's reality that have gone un-storied.

You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.

So, are you going to make me ask?

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.

I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.