Quotes About Questioning

I'm trying to learn to ask myself: 'Before you dive in are you sure you are right?' It's always safe to assume I'm wrong.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

I make films to explore concepts and raise questions, not tell the audience what to think.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

After asking questions about current recovery techniques, the conversation prompted me to ask myself, 'Why does it feel good after running to pour a bottle of water over your head?' I don't know the physiological answer, but the fact that it does feel better makes me perform better.

My first book, 'To Engineer Is Human,' was prompted by nonengineer friends asking me why so many technological accidents and failures were occurring. If engineers knew what they were doing, why did bridges and buildings fall down? It was a question that I had often asked myself, and I had no easy answer.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.

The teenage years are the years to examine faith - the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it?

Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.

Twelve-step programs require people to accept their powerlessness and turn their lives over to God or another higher power. Many adolescents question religion, and in general teenagers aren't going to turn their lives over to anyone.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

How can I die alone.Where will I be then who am now alone,what groans so patheticallyin this room where I am alone?

going?" he called without losing

You talkin' to me?

While this was much easier on my digestive tract, it did little to assuage my curiosity.

I've been to hell, and I didn't see any sign of God. After a while you stop looking. You figure it out on your own.