Top 1200 Questioning Why Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

But making big decisions shouldn't be easy - it shouldn't be that you have an idea, and you get to execute it without anyone questioning it.

I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning my arrival.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

Let's let our men be happy, be sad, be trans, be questioning, be bisexual, be non-conforming, be feminine, be masculine!

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning.

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people. That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.

I take life easy, not questioning every time the going gets tough.

Why are we ignoring the oceans? Why does NASA spend in one year what NOAA will spend in 1600 years? Why are we looking up? Why are we afraid of the ocean?

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.

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

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

When I look at my earlier work, I often wonder why I acted like that, why I wore that dress, why I said that dialogue... Why couldn't I do it better? I realized I was too young then and not confident.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I'm proud of it.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

The reason people lose their healing, is because they begin questioning if God really did it.

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.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

My family called me the 'why kid' growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

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

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?

Other kids would be playing with their Action Man, and I was questioning life and society.

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.

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

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.

Trump has created an atmosphere wherein my sons are questioning their place and identity as Arab Americans and Muslims.

I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.

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

If you're always questioning things, you realize the way you're living is just not as beneficial as it could be.

Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.