Dana Bash Quotes

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

Believe those who seek the truth; doubt those who find it.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Maybe rock 'n' roll isn't music. Maybe people just need to be reminded that the world ain't the way they think it is.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.

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

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

In these times, the hardest task for social or political activists is to find a way to get people to wonder again about what we all believe is true. The challenge is to sow doubt.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

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.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

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?'

Modern science's defense against self-delusion relies upon a spirit of open and critical inquiry. This, though hardly infallible, ostensibly uncovers errors and thereby proceeds towards objective truth

A university is supposed to show you ideas that offend you and make you feel uncomfortable,

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

We have to ask the tough questions.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.