Questioning Quotes - Page 3

Art is the questioning of culture

You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

I kept a lot of my thoughts inside myself. So, perhaps more than is normal, I'm always questioning my role as a writer. I'm always stopping and asking myself: Do I have the right to tell this story? Is it a story that deserves to be heard? And as for whether I think of myself as a Writer with a capital "W," I very much hope I never do.

They turned a distracted gaze on the world, wide-eyed, somehow, and questioning.

I want to break the taboo against questioning this drive for maximum longevity.

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could do something different.

Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"

I'm not a philosopher so why should I provide anyone with the answers? I'm just a musician, I don't have any solutions. All I'm doing is questioning the status quo, with every record I've made, to a certain extend.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.