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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

I make work not to give answers but to question things.

Question everything!

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

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

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

To philosophize is to doubt.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

The thing is, not to stop questioning.

I am the biggest "but why?" question asker.

The question is just as important as the answer.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

My only weapon is the question.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

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

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.