Quotes About Inquiry

Es de importancia para quien desee encontrar una certeza en su investigación, el saber dudar a tiempo.

All men by nature desire to know.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

for the same things are not 'knowable relatively to us' and 'knowable' without qualification. So in the present inquiry we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, (20) but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature.

those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.

Who, however, is in doubt 'and' awe (thaumázein) about a matter doesn't believe in the thing to begin with. That is why the friend of Stories (mÅ·thos) is also in a certain way a philosopher; because the Story arises out of awe.' (Aristotle's Metaphysics: Book I. Part II)

For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then in other areas too, [seeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digressions do not overwhelm our main task.

Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

The things about which we inquire are equal in number to the things we understand.

to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general

Oh . . . I'm prying, aren't I? Mrs. Madrigal smiled. I hope it means we're friends.

Om te weten wat vrijheid inhoudt, moet je informeren wat de prijs is, die je geacht wordt ervoor te betalen.

What are you doing, Dave?

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.

Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.

As a matter of interest," he said

Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question: "Where do we go from here?

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.