Eric Cantona Quotes

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The examined life is no picnic.

I question everything I do.

a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in constant self-doubt. I think that creates a kind of search that you have to have, and it prevents you from doing a lot of stuff that you would normally do.

I'm a big believer in pose some questions and then answer a few of them before you move onto the next set of questions.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what sets us apart from other nations, the United States is the most professional, most capable, most cutting-edge intelligence community in the world.

The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes you want to think, that makes you talk to other people, that stirs something that makes you examine the story that eventually turns into self-examination.

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.