Quotes About Questioning

WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW? 

We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.* *Not why is it anything . Just why it is.

Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.

If the Creator had said, Let there be light in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying What colour?

Think critically about what you are told. Do not accept the word of authority unthinkingly. Science is not a belief system: no belief system instructs you to question the system itself. Science does. (There are many scientists, however, who treat it as a belief system. Be wary of them.)

Why? Why not do things differently? Why should we do things how they have always been done before? And something inside her suddenly thrilled to the challenge.

Nevertheless, to question authority is not, in principle, to attack it, although authority always assumes that this is the case since authority must repeatedly establish its right to rule; and if this is done by force, then it turns out that it was a tyranny all along. Good heavens, I can't believe I am preaching this to an audience of Irishmen! Just think about it: a quarter of an hour of rational thinking and an Englishman turns into an Irishman.

God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?

When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us. We've been raised to question what we know, to discount and discredit the authority of our gut. I want to know why. I regret whenever I abandon myself. But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here... I am growing beyond my own conditioning, breaking set with what was breaking me.

I must question everything, even if it means losing my faith, even if it means becoming a member of a border tribe among my own people. Tolerating blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Seni ne için affedeceÄŸim? Bana masumiyetin gerçek anlam?n? gösterdiÄŸin için mi? Ä°nanmaya programland???m her kibirli nosyonu sorgulamama sebep olduÄŸun için mi? Salak olduÄŸumu fark etmemi saÄŸlad???n için mi? Sana a??k olmama sebep olduÄŸun için mi?

Was I the servant of a sovereign wish, Or ladle rattling in an empty dish?

Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created.

I urge you to write this phrase down on a card and put it up on the wall of your room: "Are you sure of your perceptions?

Many of us have spent our whole lives learning, questioning, and searching. But even on the path of enlightenment, if all we do is study, we're wasting our time and that of our teacher.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get the sense that we've forgotten that here in the United States. You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power.

I moved out to L.A. and had my son and was walking around Gelson's, and I was like, 'Am I just one giant, lactating boob? Is that what I've become?'

The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.