Quotes about Probing
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
— Os Guinness
Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
— Job 28:3
Science, according to Kuhn, has not actually followed the classic myth of steady evolution of accumulating theories based on deeper and deeper probing of the evidence. Rather, science has sometimes made huge transitions as one paradigm, which may have stood for centuries, is found to be inadequate and crashes to the ground, to be replaced by another.
— Christopher Wright
How do I work? I grope.
— Albert Einstein
Because we listen autobiographically, we tend to respond in one of four ways. We evaluate—we either agree or disagree; we probe—we ask questions from our own frame of reference; we advise—we give counsel based on our own experience; or we interpret—we try to figure people out, to explain their motives, their behavior, based on our own motives and behavior.
— Stephen Covey
Jesus is probing into the heart of his followers to ask them if they value life more than kingdom and righteousness.
— Scot McKnight
He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.
— Aldous Huxley
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
— Os Guinness