Quotes About Inquiry

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.