„The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„The obstacles to soul cognition are bodily disability, mental inertia, wrong questioning, carelessness, laziness, lack of dispassion, erroneous perception, inability to achieve concentration, failure to hold the meditative attitude when achieved.“
— Patañjali
„People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.“
— Jacque Fresco
„The answer to any question starting, "Why don't they—" is almost always, "Money."“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.“
— Maya Angelou