Quotes About Inquiry

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

What made the deepest impression upon you? inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders? ---- The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls, Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, was where in the world did all that water come from?

Science isn't about getting the most Likes

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

The demarcation between science and metaphysics is determined by the limits of experiential inquiry, not Nature or God.

Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Wait a minute. Are you limping?" Before he could speak, she said, "You can ride, though, right?" "I assume you're referring to a horse?" She smiled and jammed her hands down on her abundant hips. "Cowboys," she muttered under her breath as she sat back down.

It is not a coincidence that we have managed to send rockets into space, but our literacy rate continues to be below the world average. It is because governments don't want an educated electorate. Because if we get educated, we will start asking the right questions. And they don't want the right questions being asked.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

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

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.

Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant, plain-spoken professor changed my life: It opened up the great questions; it put my petty problems into perspective. It got me out of bed in the mornings and kept me in the library late into the night.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

It's not me being rude or disrespectful but as I've got older I've realised I can question people or ask why. Maybe in the past I've been scared to ask them or scared of the reaction of what I would get back.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

I get calls, emails and get asked in the grocery store when I'm not looking that great... 'I love your hair. Where do you get it done?'

Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn't really know very much. —1 Corinthians 8:2