Annie Lennox Quotes

I look in the mirror every morning, okay. What is going on here? You know, I just say, 'Look, it's sheer insanity.'

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

I love to doubt as well as know.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

I cannot abide stupidity, in myself or in others.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.

As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Credulity without enquiry is a sure way to deceive oneself.

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.