Quotes About Inquiry

WHERE THE BLIND, BLUE, BLITHERING BLAZES HAVE YOU BEEN?

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him.

In de naam van Boh-Raka, waar heb je dat gevonden? En wat is het? - Karina

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Some days load themselves with questions whose answers have died, and maybe never mattered hugely

In many ways, history both begins and ends with questions; which is to say that it never really ends, but is a process.

Where once there seemed to be room to wonder, to speculate, to not know, there now seems to be increasing pressure for instant answers, immediate solutions, and narrowly defined results.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

what's going on

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

No estás de acuerdo en que hasta la venganza más terrible empieza con una simple pregunta?

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The two most important questions in science are "What can I know?" and "How can I know it?

artists know to look deeper than just surface beauty. They dig for what's underneath the underneath

So, am I a genius?

I mean that the more confident people are about their beliefs, the more likely they are to be wrong. It's the ones who are so certain, so black and white, the ones who never consider that they could be wrong or that anyone else could be right, they're the ones who scare me. When you're not confident at least you keep checking what you do and asking yourself if you're on the right track.

They read all the books but they can't find the answers.

We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

I had wanted to become a novelist before I even knew how to read, back when I could only consume books by having them read to me, and none of them seemed long enough. They left too many questions unanswered, too many ramifications unexplored.

Theoretical inquiry involves a search for regularities. It involves abstraction from the complexity of a field setting, followed by the positing of theoretical variables that underlie observed complexities.

Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.

if you're like nearly everybody else in this world, you've accepted so many things without question that you're not really thinking at all

An expert is not someone that gives you the right answer, it is someone that asks you the right question

any doubt what goes on. I'm puzzling over how to do this when