Quotes About Inquiry

Greeks, sub-Greeks, anti-Greeks, the whole long series of men bent over the well, to see the truth come out, which was not there.

Dear God! we must explain everything.

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

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Why does anybody do anything? Mimi asked impatiently. Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

Slow Professors advocate deliberation over acceleration. We need time to think, and so do our students. Time for reflection and open-ended inquiry is not a luxury but is crucial to what we do.

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I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

We need to accept our ignorance and say 'I don't know' more often.

Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world for evidence of extraordinary wealth, and almost 20 percent of the names they end up with come from

it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men and women, acquire the habit of thought and reflection, and of forming their own conclusions, independently of what they are taught and the authority of others.

Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?

Art thou not he? Art thou Montezuma?

stop believing only when our doubts and misgivings rise to the point where we can no longer explain them away.

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.

You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information

The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves

Questions control how you think, and thinking is the root contributor to the results and outcomes of your life

It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask.

Your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask yourself and others.

The answers to all problems or issues is hidden in a question.

Thinking is simply an orderly process of asking yourself questions.