Quotes About Inquiry

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

Cuando eres niño, no cuestionas las respuestas. Las grabas de una en una. Las guardas hasta la adolescencia. Y es entonces cuando las cuestionas todas de golpe

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Do you think she's still here?" Jonah asks.

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates. The more knowledge, the better seems like the a solid rule of thumb, even though I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

What's the address?

And the process started over again. Once more it was, Who are you? And I had to confess that I didn't know where to begin.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.

What's life? Metabolism? That's what it is for the bugs.

Spremnost da se odgovori na sva pitanja nepogrešivi je znak gluposti.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

Man is born not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.

?i dac? totu?i, pân' la urm?, natura pe ea îns??i se scruteaz??

There's much I know: yet I'd know everything. (600)

Ignorant people raise questions which were answered by the wise thousands of years ago

I shall never rest until I know that all my ideas are derived not from hearsay or tradition but from my real living contact with the things themselves.

Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, musst du vernünftig fragen.

Was her mother all right? Free? In

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it. { Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams , November 13 1816 }