Quotes About Inquiry

If the child's curiosity is not fed, if his questions are not answered, he will stop asking questions. And then, by the time he is in his middle twenties, he will stop wondering about all the mysteries of his world. His curiosity will be dead.

There is a wonderful word, why? , that children use. All children. When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer them, no one tried to keep alive one of the most important attributes a person can have: interest in the world around him.

Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.

He turned to Marirosa, as if irritated by the too private note of our exchange: "Elena is asking what there is to do." Mariarosa answered cheerfully: "The revolution." So I assumed a mocking tone, I said: "And in your free time?

What was I like, really?

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions. A painter, for example, might be working on a body of work, asking, "Is it beautiful? Is it beautiful?" and that might be, unbeknownst to him, the wrong question. He might go completely astray in search of a quality that has nothing at all to do with where the work should be going.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

Life consists of burning up questions.

designed to fill the interstices of constitutional text."43 Thus is born, out of false linguistic association, a whole new field of legal inquiry.

Quien busque lo conocido no busca el conocimiento.

Are red haired girls, red all over?

I'd inquired him about being safe, he had reached into the drawer of the beside table and drawn out a satin-lined box of condoms. "Standard rock-star equipment," he'd said with a sly smile.

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends

By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

Such stories ask us to remember that there are little things in the world around us that we hardly notice but which contain great beauty and strength; that we might learn by taking a closer at places we already thought we knew; that we overlook important knowledge by not asking enough questions of the land around us; that some places in the wilderness are not for us to visit; that there are always small, secret wonders hiding in nature, just out of view.

What in Urza's name

We do not want to be like the scientist who takes his umbrella with him to go study the rain.

All men desire to know

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

All men by nature desire knowledge...

Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.