Quotes About Inquiry

Dear Gods Nick what have you done while I was gone?

Acheron: Yeah well, I don't like talking about myself and I despise personal questions. Tory: Fine. All I want is that brain of yours for a few

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.

It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall you look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.

The alien abduction field is a new one, and it deserves a broad and systematic multi-disciplinary inquiry. It is my hope that, if nothing else, this book will encourage at least some of the skeptics who have criticized my methods and hypotheses to immerse themselves in the primary data of this field, namely the experiences of those who have undergone the abduction encounters, and draw their own conclusions about what is taking place here and what it might mean for the human future.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him." Alyss shrugged. "Well, it's such a logical idea, he can hardly say no, can he?" "No!" said Halt. "No, no, no—and, just in case you missed it the first time, no.

WHERE THE BLIND, BLUE, BLITHERING BLAZES HAVE YOU BEEN?" the calm and dignified Princess Cassandra demanded.