Quotes About Inquiry

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

I wasn't asking anything about God, Jonah complained. Yeah, you kind of were, JB said. If there is fate, who else would control it?

The Nightlord wasn't attempting to illicit information from Palin.

mind her when I'm away?' I stayed overnight in

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.

Art should never be an answer but a question.

It seems as though the conclusions are never as interesting as the questions. I mean, they're not what you remember.

Everything always bears looking into, astonishing as that fact is.

It is clearly true that the reflex of disparagement is no more compatible with rigorous inquiry than the impulse to glorify.