Quotes About Questioning

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

One of the main keys of discovering your gift is question

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.

For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.

The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.

I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven.

If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.

I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

Another approach is to ask the person a substantive question, based on your knowledge of his or her previous employment history. Most importantly, it should be a question you really want to know the answer to.

You are living. As soon as you introduce the question "how to live?" you have made of life a problem. "How" to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask "how," you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...