Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.

Miracle me no miracles.

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn’t think I was snooping. It didn’t feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn’t it. (Tory)

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

If you question anything enough, you'll begin to doubt it.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

Was it someone else? Was it not you yourself?

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well, Sadie," Inspector Williams said. "You've got quite an imagination." "I'm not lying, Inspector. And I think your eyebrow is trying to escape." He tried to look at his own eyebrows, then scowled.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.

Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.