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Quotes About Questioning

I left school unsure of what I wanted to do in life.
~ Nicholas Galitzine
The space between keepers and defenders is referred to as the 'corridor of opportunity' - a well-hit pass in there has the goalie questioning whether to come into traffic and defenders unsure of whether or where to clear the ball.
~ Glenn Murray
I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.
~ Alice McDermott
I could have easily said that I don't believe in anything when I came out of the upbringing that I had, but I do still believe that there is something there, and I have a difficult time figuring it out. I suppose I don't want to be thought of as stupid or unintelligent because I believe that there's something out there bigger than us in the world.
~ John Grant
I want to know why if men rule the world they don't stop wearing neckties.
~ Linda Ellerbee
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
~ Barack Obama
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
~ Peter Brook
If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.
~ I. F. Stone
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
~ H. L. Mencken
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
~ Thomas Paine
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?
~ Byron Katie
Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.
~ Alister E. McGrath
Doubts can produce positive side-effects - if you work toward resolving them.
~ Lee Strobel
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.
~ Che Guevara
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.
~ Lebbeus Woods
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
~ Eric Hoffer
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.
~ Brooke McEldowney
The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
~ Marlee Matlin
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.
~ Jeppe Hein
It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?
~ Elizabeth Joan Smith
The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.
~ Darren Shan
There were a lot of points where I would start to come out, face stern resistance and mockery from people I thought were my friends, and then reverse course. I was scared. I don't think I ever said, 'I'm gay,' or, 'I'm trans.' It was more like, 'Is it normal for guys to crossdress a lot?'
~ Chelsea Manning