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Quotes About Inquiry

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.
~ Denis Villeneuve
If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.
~ Frederick Buechner
It should not matter, but it does. I want to know how many hours of the night are gone and how many remain and that there is no good reason for my wanting to know does not stop the wanting.
~ Fredric Brown
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
~ Freya Stark
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Great intellects are skeptical.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
~ Galileo Galilei
Die Neugier steht immer an erster Stelle eines Problems, das gelöst werden will.
~ Galileo Galilei
Who would set a limit to the mind? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
~ Galileo Galilei
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~ Galileo Galilei
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.
~ James Stephens
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
~ John Abbott
That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
~ Anthony Eden
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.
~ Robert McNamara