Austin Aries Quotes

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

It is important that students bring a certain …, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

One of the most important aspects of science that I learned from my father was to distrust authority.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

I don't like accepting things at face value.

Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.