Quotes About Questioning

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.

I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.

Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

We grow up being told about great figures in our society, and as you get older you have to question the stories you've been told and decide if these great figures are indeed as great as you've been told.

We believe, it seems, where we ought to reason. We reason where we ought to believe. We believe too blindly and not blindly enough. We reason too closely and not closely enough.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

ASK "WHY?" Asking why you're doing your project will focus you on what matters, your ultimate purpose, and your result. This goes into the box on the right of your project chart.

My lords, for more than half an hour you've not stopped questioning me about some fantastic story or other; one could in fact say that you're babbling, or rambling. By babbling, I mean, that you're talking nonsense; by rambling, that you're saying nothing at all.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

My secret demon is called: What's the use?

Did Mari Carmen's "secret" intimate conversation with Leslie influence Leslie's grand jury testimony the next day, Wednesday, November 15th? Leslie was the first witness. Her account was lucid and straightforward at moments, hedging and reticent at others, and occasionally, fractured and jumbled. Was she trying to please whoever was questioning her? Or was she responding to someone who had talked to her last night or last month?

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

I am not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Where did God go? It's like he just abandoned us. Without so much as a 'good luck.' It's every man for himself now and it just -- sucks.