Quotes About Questioning

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.

We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.

You can communicate a sad message or perplexing message through happy chords or a happy melody, and I hope to have the listener pose more questions in their life as opposed to going along with the everyday and what's being pushed on them.

Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

Now, I am not saying that the world is flat, but it could be.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

I am an artiste in a free world, I am supposed to raise questions.

'Faces of Love' is asking about what the fundamental nature of love is.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

God is a book I can no longer read.

But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?

Are you sure the child was left at a school in Paris? Are you sure it was Paris?" "My dear fellow," broke forth Carrisford, with restless bitterness, "I am sure of nothing.

She asked what I had learned in Sunday school and I always said, "Jesus wept." I didn't want to go into my feelings about a God who put a father to a test to see if he'd kill his own son like a lamb to roast, and then sent his only child to be nailed onto a cross and fed vinegar

What time are we upon and where do I belong?

He was increasingly doubtful of the existence of any God; but he hoped it was a vengeful one.

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? What has this god of yours ever really done for you? She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. Everything.

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Are you Lewis Carroll? Redd asked him.