"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."

Inquiry, Question, Knowledge, Observation, Truth

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"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."

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"The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

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"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics."

Michael Crichton, American Author

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"Ask questions. The secrets of life are hidden in questions, so ask wisely."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into."

Dan Pearce, American Author

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"In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair, disposing of it by means of another question is not."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know-the Church does neither."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking."

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"Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."

Discipline

"Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car.They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it."

Awareness

"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come."

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"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place."

Art

"People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things."

Character

"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome."

Childhood

"I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take the opportunity for such professions where and when I can invent them, since I do not yet actually feel this faith in the future."

Faith

"Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?"

Reflection

"The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."

Reflection

"My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."

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