Quotes About Questioning

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I'd chosen to write my first novel that way.

In case you don't watch much TV or spend time with anyone under 40, 'Really?' is pop culture's pithiest way to deliver a withering put-down.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

People would ask what college are you going to, and I'd say, 'San Diego State.' And they'd say, 'Why?'

The more that is learned about Comey's involvement in the deep state's illicit targeting of President Trump, the more reason the American people must question both Comey's motives and his management as director of the FBI, the now-disgraced agency he headed before Trump fired him.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

My mom taught me to respect myself, and to question anyone who would ask me to sacrifice my integrity.

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

You know, I think it's something I want to teach my children, to ask questions and not be afraid to disagree with people in power. Always question, scrutinize everything they do, because they are leading the country, and it's important to me. That is patriotic.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea.

The list of gifted teachers and librarians who find their jobs in jeopardy for defending their students' right to read, to imagine, to question, grows every year.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.

What the hell have you done to her?

Why was everyone suddenly challenging something that I'd held as absolute truth my entire life?

So why," she muttered to herself, "am I always breaking up bar fights?