Quotes About Inquiry

Literature is the question minus the answer.

questioning existing knowledge through a critical inquiry into evidence and its reading.

Are there girls in this movie?' 'Sure. There are always girls in movies. There aren't any movies without girls.

I know it ain't none of my buisness, but does you own somethin that each one of them keys fits?I glanced at the keys; there were about ten of them. I suppose, I replied, not really ever having thought about it. Are you sure you own them, or does they own you

What can we do?" It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know.

Socrates always insisted that any of us could do what he did if we were willing to give full expression to our innate capacity to ask questions, learn from everyone, challenge our own beliefs, and stand up for what is right.

Questions can excite, disturb, discipline, or comfort, but they always stimulate inquiry.

We are the result of the universe attempting to understand itself

I will ask you again. Are you mad? Well, that is the rumor, isn't it?

What freedom! Unencumbered by the obstacles that the calculating self tackles daily, the central self can listen in innocence for who we are, listen for the whole of it, inquire into what is here. The

You look for thoughts and actions that reflect survival and scarcity, comparison and competition, attachment and anxiety. Notice that the question is not, "Are my thoughts . . ." which is a question of assessment, but, "How are my thoughts . . ." which is a true inquiry.

Mystery is not a passive condition. To see a thing so perfectly what it is-- doesn't it make you want to hold it, to marvel, to touch, its answered question?

Work?" Sixtus asked.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

What a curious attitude scientists have: "We still don't know that; but it is knowable and it is only a matter of time before we get to know it!"' As if that went without saying.

We never arrive at fundamental propositions in the course of our investigation; we get to the boundary of language which stops us from asking further questions. We don't get to the bottom of things, but reach a point where we can go no further, where we cannot ask further questions.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Where did your clothes go?

The truth is that I want It, and the price I must pay is to ask the question again and again and again

you have all the hallmarks of a seeker...You chase special knowledge. You find threads of connections and then share them with people who need them. I can read it in the way you looked at me, the questions you ask, but more importantly, the ones you don't.