Quotes About Inquiry

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

What are you smiling about? I simply asked a question. I don't care, I'm just curious."- Sesshomaru

It is not anti-scientific to question established beliefs, but central to science itself. At the creative heart of science is the spirit of open minded inquiry. Ideally, science is a process and not a position or a belief system. Innovative science happens when scientists feel free to ask questions and build new theories.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

I look at her and ask, flat out, "What's up?" Girl talk, of course, for, Back off my man, biotch.

In the realm of spiritual transformation, the questions we are willing to ask ourselves are more important than the answers we think we know. At

Science teachers give their students the keys to unlocking the secrets of the world around them.

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

Veritas filia temporis

?nsanlar?n en zay?f taraflar?, sormadan, ara?t?rmadan, dü?ünmeden, kafalar?n? patlatmadan inanmak hususundaki hayret verici temayülleridir.

Well, Edwin?" Jane asked anxiously. "Would he hurt her?" Blakeborough squeezed Jane's shoulder, then left his hand resting there. That seemed remarkably intimate for a man who supposedly had only a platonic-sounding "arrangement" with her. Dom tamped down his urge to go knock the earl's hand from here into the next county.

Why did Mama say that? Had Papa made her angry again? He made her angry a lot. Gran said it was on account of his "hores." One time Celia asked Nurse what a hore was, and Nurse paddled her and told her that was a bad word. Then why did Papa have them?

It has always seemed to me odd that the world does not realize the immensity of a state of "I do not know.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Learn to ask of all actions, "Why are they doing that?" Starting with your own.

Learn to ask of all questions, 'Why are they doing that?' Starting with your own.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

It was a question now, rather than a statement; a question with no answer.

When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.