Always Question Quotes

#1. Do whatever you do, from eating fast food to living with mobile phones,
But always question the way in which you do.
Pause, look and see before doing,
Because there are many who would want you to blindly follow what they do.

Gian Kumar

#2. My father wrote: "Always question where your loyalties lie. The people you trust will expect it, your greatest enemies will desire it, and those you treasure the most, will, without fail, abuse it.

Emily Thorne

#3. I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

Elizabeth Lesser

#4. Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

Paul Tudor Jones

#5. I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?'

Peter Greenaway

#6. Always question the authority.

Tom Morello

#7. Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

Maximillian Degenerez

#8. I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

Bruce Willis

#9. We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

R.K. Narayan

#10. Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Craig Bruce

#11. Always question what other things than the top layer are proceeding on beneath.

Jay Woodman

#12. I don't think anyone likes anything of mine. At the end of the day, I love it, but just because I love it ... I happen to love broccoli, not a lot of people like broccoli. I always question if somebody else is going to love my films.

Lee Daniels

#13. You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

Matt LeBlanc

#14. Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Michel Foucault

#15. I always found myself trying to cover the mental anguish and the torment and the abuse that I was dealing with. That made me always question my beauty, my intelligence, and a lot of other things about myself.

Tasha Smith

#16. I think it's a good idea to always question authority, but don't judge, have empathy towards your fellow man.

Bobby Blaze Smedley

#17. I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

Lee Daniels

#18. Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.

Anh Do

#19. Our ability to extinguish new ideas is critical to productivity and to our capacity to scale existing projects. In a team setting, the skeptics - the ones who always question ideas first rather than falling in love with them - are the white blood cells.

Scott Belsky

#20. There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

Martin McDonagh

#21. You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.

J.M. Darhower

#22. The next question is how? How does news find us?
What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.

Kelly McBride

#23. But that's the wrong question. Ask why everyone else is so pathetically stupid and why they're always whining about detention, I should get a medal for not slapping people in the face every day.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#24. I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#25. People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

Jon Runyan

#26. My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.

David F. Swensen

#27. Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as ... private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.

Amie Kaufman

#28. Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question for me to answer because I feel like it's a sensibility that varies for each individual.

Alexander Wang

#29. As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true, when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Mohammed VI Of Morocco

#30. Question: What is something you sometimes want so badly you'd search for it your whole life? Answer: Your past Warning: Never look for your past. It always comes looking for you.

John Nuck

#31. Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

Leo Strauss

#32. You always spend a little more time watching the guys you coached, to see how they're playing. And there's no question that when I check scores, I still go to the Nuggets scorer faster than any other scores. I have a lot of love for the players and a lot of love for the city.

George Karl

#33. Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometimes he drew a picture. He always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep.

E.B. White

#34. She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#35. Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

Nancy Reagan

#36. I think there was always that question mark of why am I not in St. Louis anymore? I think everybody had those questions and probably had those perceptions of me.

Kurt Warner

#37. I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of it, the fear of it, which often saves us; for death marks the end of our flesh causing us to question the future of what we are.

Stefanie Schneider

#38. How virtuous can you be in this gloomy, deceitful world? I find it hard to answer the question, but I tell you this, I want to be a man of complete integrity, who will always stick to his principles and never settle for anything less.

Aishah Madadiy

#39. Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

Florence Nightingale

#40. He feels the way he used to feel passing love notes to girls in elementary school. Do you like me? the notes always read. Check yes or no. But he is older now and his question is older, too, not Do you like me? but Shouldn't someone?

Kevin Brockmeier

#41. There are times you feel the world has turned its back on you, you feel so alone, no one to turn to. There is one person who's willing to listen to you and He's always with you. Just say the word and He'll answer every question you have.

Euginia Herlihy

#42. I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

Ronald Perelman

#43. In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

Hideo Kojima

#44. For a long time ... I've been asking myself this question ... Am I a memory? Are you ... a memory? Are we just ... a collection of memories? I've always been waiting ... for the person who disappeared beyond those rails. Now I understand. It didn't end here. This place ... was just the beginning.

Yuuki Obata

#45. This is the way I've always been. I think of the answer long after the person asking the question has lost interest and walked away.

Jael McHenry

#46. If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Lynn Abbey

#47. Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#48. I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

Abraham Lincoln

#49. ARE YOU CRAZY? I ASKED.
He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Richelle Mead

#50. If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.

David Papineau

#51. I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

Jack Kevorkian

#52. I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

Andrea Arnold

#53. I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

Robert Hass

#54. As far as where you belong ... " He put a hand over his heart. "Right here. Always. In life and death and everything in between." He paused. "Never question it.

Chelsea Fine

#55. Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile.

David Morrell

#56. The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

Barbara Hambly

#57. There is always a right answer for every question, even for the wrong ones.

M.F. Moonzajer

#58. I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

David Bowie

#59. The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

Apolo Ohno

#60. I don't know, I always get the question 'how do you feel after the game today?' and, of course, if you're winning you feel great and if you lose you don't feel good. I think that's a pretty obvious question.

Caroline Wozniacki

#61. Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

Matthew Zapruder

#62. I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.

Malcolm Gladwell

#63. Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

Charles Dickens

#64. In a classical joke a child stays behind after school to ask a personal question. "Teacher, what did I learn today? " The surprised teacher asks, "Why do you ask that?" and the child replies, "Daddy always asks me and I never know what to say".

Seymour Papert

#65. Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.

Steven D. Levitt

#66. I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

Toni Morrison

#67. I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

Wendy Williams

#68. Jewish?"
"Moslem?" I replied.
"Just like a Jew: always answers with a question."
"Just like a Moslem: always answers the wrong question.

Andre Aciman

#69. You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have.

John Steinbeck

#70. The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

Albert J. Nock

#71. The problem and the question on 'Breaking Bad' is always 'Where is Walt's head at?'

Peter Gould

#72. I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Keanu Reeves

#73. But it is always a question whether I wish to avoid these glooms. These weeks give one a plunge into deep waters. One goes down into the well & nothing protects one from the assault of truth.

Virginia Woolf

#74. No. Haven't you been listening?
Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

Julia Quinn

#75. This is definitely it," he says. "The attack simulation serum, I mean. No question."
"It's always good to have another person verify," Matthew says.
I am standing with my brother in the hours before he dies. And he is analyzing serums. It's so stupid.

Veronica Roth

#76. It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

Miles Davis

#77. You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Charles Spurgeon

#78. What are you, my father now?"

"No, but I'm someone who will always love you."

"Always?" I question, because even without jealousy, my relationship with Flynn was bound to hurt him.

"Forever.

Shannon Dermott

#79. Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

#80. When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.

Ray Allen

#81. But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.

Philip A. Fisher

#82. As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

Emily Procter

#83. Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.

Michel De Montaigne

#84. Those who are growing great are always asking "why?" If they fail or lose, they ask "why?" If they succeed or win too, they ask "why?

Israelmore Ayivor

#85. And suppose you don't like it? Excellent question; and, strangely, one I'd never asked myself, principally because I had chosen the ingredients, and I always have faith in my own judgment.

Truman Capote

#86. I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

Michael Ian Black

#87. I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.

Emilie Loring

#88. It's never been a question of who is going to let me behave a certain way; it's always been a question of who is going to stop me. I thank you for answering it.

Renee Ahdieh

#89. There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Agatha Christie

#90. When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.

Ron Brackin

#91. It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

Emile Chartier

#92. It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

Walpola Rahula

#93. Art has always been this
pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric
whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Samuel Beckett

#94. What made you so unforgiving? (Simone)
Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you'll always be ignorant. (Xypher)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#95. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#96. Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?

Erica Jong

#97. when we do science or are confronted with data the most important question to ask about the results is always whether some bias is present that leads us preferentially to draw one conclusion rather than another from the evidence.

Anonymous

#98. He has always been the kid who cries too easily and laughs too easily, the kid who begins giggling in church for no reason at all, who blinks hotly in shame and frustration whenever he misses a question in class, living in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes.

Kevin Brockmeier

#99. Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

Gifford Pinchot

#100. He who has a question will always be able to find the answer.

Debasish Mridha