Quotes About Questioning

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.' As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.

In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: What did I do to deserve this?

Why must this happen to me?" To this there could be no answer and there was none. When I knew at last that there could never be an answer, my own resolve shaped into the determination to make meaning out of the meaningless, and so provide the answer, though it was of my own making.

Por qué tuve que conocerte?, se preguntó la loca mirándolo desaparecer. Pudimos no habernos cruzado nunca.

It's an extraordinary thing—every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?

Trungpa Rinpoche once said that the dharma has to be experienced because when the real quality of our lives, including the obstacles and problems and experiences that cause us to start questioning, becomes intense, any mere philosophical belief isn't going to hold a candle to the reality of what we are experiencing.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Art is the questioning of culture

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.