Quotes About Questioning

Why is it so important that you know right now who he is? If he lives, you can ask him. If he dies—" She halted abruptly.

Alas, the question was too big for a man in the process of dying, alone and far from home.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

Think for yourself and question authority.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.

Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose.

When in pain and sorrow, you ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people, remember God allowed His Son, the best of us, to suffer the most so that Christ would have the ability to heal us.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.

What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.