Quotes About Questioning

Why is such a bad thing to die?

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

Yes, our eyes may perceive, yet they do not observe; they may believe, yet they do not question; they may receive yet they do not search: they are emptied of desire, with neither hunger nor passion.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

What if destiny doesn't care?

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

May you find what you are looking for and realize it is not the answer.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

I don't really know why I went to law school.