Quotes About Questioning

You might think that there's some authority you could look for to answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

You might think that there's some authority you could look to for answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live

I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

If I have to answer one more time, 'Why did you want to remake 'Straw Dogs?'' with the emphasis on the word 'why,' I'm going to flip out.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

As for people questioning the Balakot strikes, I think people have the right to question.

My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.

There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'

What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?