Quotes About Questioning

Scepticism is a girl's number six

Sometimes knowing how to find the answers and what questions to ask are more important than the answers themselves. - Mr. Lemoncello

The elite, and those who work for them, were never taught how to question the assumptions of their age. The socially important knowledge and cultural ideas embodied in history, literature, philosophy, and religion, which are at their core subversive and threatening to authority, have been banished from public discourse.

I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, 'Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?'

I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

I just had one of those 'what the hell are we doing' moments.

I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.

I'm motivated by curiosity.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

There will always be people who question your motives.

T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his philosophy must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow - and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.

Não sou um economista, político ou financeiro que disponha de respostas rápidas sobre as razões pelas quais as coisas podem ou não podem mudar. Sou um tecnólogo e um empreendedor habituado a reparar nas discrepâncias entre a forma como as coisas são e a forma como poderiam ser, e a fazer perguntas cujas respostas possam apontar o caminho para futuros melhores.

C'etait impossible de savoir ci c' etait le froid ou la faim.

Yes," Vader said, frowning. "Are you suggesting I was wrong?

Skepticism is a natural part of science

Psychoanalysis, however, calls into question the idea that we primarily act on behalf of our own interest. It allows us to see another power operating beneath the apparent predominance of self-interest. Of course, the commonsensical understanding of psychoanalysis is exactly the opposite of this, contending that psychoanalysis reduces everything to self-interest.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

We're agnostics, she used to tell her kids, back when they were little and needed a way to define themselves to their Catholic and Jewish and Unitarian friends. We don't know if there's a God, and nobody else does, either. They might say they do, but they really don't.

Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a package. Twenty centuries under our belts and where do we go from here?

How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective

His first—and worst—mistake was blindly doing what he was told to do. Without questioning their methods or their motives, he allowed politicians to make the decisions that led to his early demise.

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?