David Levithan Quotes

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

I can try to wheedle information out of people," Holly offered. "For which I'll need a lower-cut top.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

The public always wants to be told.

Truth is a very powerful political weapon against those who are trying to conceal it.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

One reads in order to ask questions

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

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

Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. (2) If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. It is one of the surest and shortest means.

Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....." "Awesome?Yeah,I Know

Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Language was invented to ask questions.

The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.