I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to]…

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So how does it feel?” is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production purgatory to…

— David Mitchell

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

— Grace Hopper

Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me a long…

— Damon Runyon

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

— Richard Lindzen

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

— Michael Dell

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and…

— Lily Cole

“At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.”

— Sarah Dessen

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will…

— Patrick Swift

I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest…

— Daniel Radcliffe

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop…

— Marina and the Diamonds

Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Because I am a transvestite, people often assume that this gives me a special insight into the opposite gender. But this is rubbish: how…

— Grayson Perry

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,…

— Rajneesh