Quotes About Questioning

What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth?' There's a consensus of things that people believe to be true. Maybe the conventions are right, and maybe they're not. And we never want to let a convention be a shortcut for truth. We always need to ask: Is this true? And this is always what I get at with this indirect question: 'Tell me something that's true that very few people agree with you on.

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Think for yourself and question authority.

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Think for yourself. Question authority.

Korzybski argued that language must be viewed as a map, which is useful only insofar as it is similar to the world it describes. He stressed the importance of questioning the unconscious assumptions built into our language, and urged a response to life on the basis of fresh, "first order" experience rather than the old experiences that have been crystallized in words and concepts.

It is never wrong to be curious. But it can sometimes be dangerous.

At the end of the play, the shrew is tamed (...). All good fun. Under the guise of comedy, the most horrible acts are perpetrated on a woman. It's a nightmare, because the sexism is so completely accepted - It is simply "the way it is". Nowhere is it questioned.

Doubt can lead you where certainty never will.

What Christianity promises, I do not understand. What its god could possibly want, I have never been able to imagine, not even when I was a Christian.

It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

On the set, you do a movie shoot, you go, 'OK, was that OK, how was that?' You dont know, you're not sure.

There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

There are a bunch of talented bands out there... So yeah, I often think, 'Why aren't these people onstage and why do I have a microphone?'

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

I ask merely for information.

ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?

Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - a cursed word? How 'bout you go straight there and see?

I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me? She answered his question with one of her own. I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant? It makes you a miracle. She held his gaze. Exactly.