Quotes About Questioning

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are.

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

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.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

I often think, if I hadn't have done 'Blood, Sweat and T-shirts,' where would I be? What would I be doing?

My dad was a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor, and from an early age I was put off by being force-fed a belief system.

I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.