Quotes About Questioning

He accepted neither the easy slogans of the left nor the easier shibboleths of the right. He was a man who accepted nobody's answer for any problem—"…we

Searching out a painful image, going over it and over it in my mind, raking its sharp edges over my open psychological sores. My mind generates the million and one questions I ask in order to avoid asking the only one that matters. Can you save me? At the time I believe my thoughts are real.

Maybe there was no explanation for those things. There are mysteries that they say we will just have to ask God to answer when we are on the other side. I always wondered if we would just stop caring about them then.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Music can inspire people to wake up and say, 'Somebody's lying.' This is the point I'd like to make with my music," Watt told Rolling Stone in 1985. "Make you think about what's expected of you, of your friends. What's expected of you by your boss. Challenge those expectations. And your own expectations. Man, you should challenge your own ideas about the world every day.

If you don't ask why, you'll never be attacked or criticized. No one is going to go after you or your family. But if you don't ask why, nothing, not a damn thing, is ever going to change. I think that's the difference between philanthropy and activism. Philanthropy is this kind of life-saving work. Activism is when you ask why this work needs to be done in the first place.

I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

You shame me. Of course, you are right. At the final moment, He will awake and rebuke the storm. Then He will turn to us and ask us why we had so little faith.

Just be aware that rational answers aren't necessarily what we're looking for when we produce our questions.

I don't know why people aren't more curious, and why curiosity isn't considered a more important leadership trait. A journalist once asked me if I was ever bored as a kid. I only had to think about it for a second: I never was, not even for a minute, because I was so curious. Every day I'd wake up excited by all the new things there were to learn about.

Once when he was slapping me back and forth, one hand holding my neck, the other whipping across my cheeks, I caught a glimpse of a picture of him on the mantel – ten years old in a Cub Scout uniform. He looked so proud; his grin was so sweet. Freckles, bright eyes, combed hair still wet. Adorable. I wanted to ask him; how did you grow up to be who you are? Who taught you to hit?

Studiando, noi diventiamo tutti filosofi; dovrete dunque avvezzarvi, ogni volta che un risultato vi sorprende, specialmente quando questo risultato vi par nuovo, dovrete avvezzarvi, dico, a chiedere a voi stessi o ad altri: «Quale è la causa di ciò? Perché le cose succedono a questo modo?» E presto o tardi finirete sempre col trovare la risposta.

That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them.

No, she's in Spain, too, they're all in Spain, there's no one here... Am I in Spain? No, I'm not in Spain, dear, I'm in agony. That's where I am.

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Leaders who promote a questioning culture in their organizations move people from dependence to independence.

Questioning leaders are realists and don't inflate the importance of their own efforts. They take the time to drill down into problems by asking questions. Questioning leaders recognize that everyone is needed, and that everyone should serve one another, if the organization is to be successful.

Questioning helps people gain perspective and understand the perspectives of others. As they see issues and problems from different points of view, they gain an appreciation for their complexity—and also expand the range of possible solutions.

Do you ever feel defensive when people ask you questions? Do you ever hesitate to ask a question, fearing it may reveal ignorance or doubt? If so, you are closing off the free flow of information and ideas your organization needs and potentially undermining relationships with those around you. In fact, avoiding questions can cause serious harm—and even disaster.

In organizations that discourage questions, on the other hand, questions and those who ask them may be seen as threatening. And when questions are not responded to openly or honestly, or are actually rejected, those who ask them can feel put down and marginalized.

To overcome inertia, Peter Drucker, the legendary consultant, suggested asking the seemingly naïve question, "If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we now know, go into it?"26

acknowledged, was that the world might not care if he was telling the truth. The public was less interested in real justice than in the clean, self-righteous satisfaction of immediate blame. They didn't want the truth. The truth was complicated, messy, required something of them, maybe even an admission of their own fallibility. All the questioning and the listening and the thinking, so exhausting, who had the time? They just needed someone to hang.

When Cohn boasted that he had spent much of his life under indictment, Trump asked whether Cohn had really done what was alleged. "What the hell do you think?" Cohn responded with a smile. Trump said he "never really knew" what that meant, but he liked Cohn's toughness and loyalty. Cohn