Quotes About Inquiry

replacing, for example, We make the world a better place through robotics! with How might we make the world a better place through robotics?). By articulating the company mission as a question, it tells the outside world, "This is what we're striving for—we know we're not there yet, but we're on the journey." It acknowledges room for possibility, change, and adaptability.

A journey of inquiry that (hopefully) culminates in change can be a long road, with pitfalls and detours and often nary an answer in sight. That's why it can be helpful to approach inquiry systematically, as a step-by-step progression. The best innovators are able to live with not having the answer right away because they're focused on just trying to get to the next question.

If we're born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

What might the potential for humans be if we really encouraged that spirit of questioning in children, instead of closing it down? I

These days it's easier and less expensive to just try out your ideas than to figure out if you should try them out.

Contextual inquiry is about asking questions up close and in context, relying on observation, listening, and empathy to guide us toward a more intelligent, and therefore more effective, question.

One of the most important things questioning does is to enable people to think and act in the face of uncertainty. As Steve Quatrano of the Right Question Institute puts it, forming questions helps us "to organize our thinking around18 what we don't know.

Libraries are being remade as interesting maker spaces, with the librarian playing more of the role of the teacher of inquiry-based learning

You don't learn unless you question.

The main premise of appreciative inquiry is that positive questions, focusing on strengths and assets, tend to yield more effective results than negative questions focusing on problems or deficits.

Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything." After

What's required is a willingness to go out into the world with a curious and open mind, to observe closely, and—perhaps most important, according to a number of the questioners I've interviewed—to listen.

The most important thing business leaders must do today is to be the 'chief question-asker' for their organization," says the consultant Dev Patnaik of Jump Associates. However, Patnaik adds a cautionary note: "The first thing most leaders need to realize is, they're really bad at asking questions.

The elegant simplicity of Square (and that of Dorsey's earlier creation, Twitter) is a product of rigorous inquiry: Dorsey maintains that good design is about removing unnecessary features by continually asking, Do we really need this? and What can we take away?

What troubles you, Sarah?

Hopelessness is seeing someone else who has been there for eight months and hasn't been asked a single question and is just begging to be convicted and executed already.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

No one is without knowledge except him who asks no questions.

Beliefs are walls. Questions are doors.

The next time I met Ulrich, he asked me: "Do you know what sookin sin is?" I

So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don't ever stop learning. Stay curious.

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.