Question Authority Quotes

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Think for yourself and question authority.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

You should never trust the experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

It is every American's right to question any big event, especially when it's seized on to take the basic liberties of Americans.

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation.

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.

If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert.

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.