Quotes About Inquiry

What question? I ask, breathless. Whether you're as beautiful in the morning as you are during the rest of the day.

Now, do you mind telling me what the fuck is going on?

Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?

But here's the thing, if you're responsible for someone's money, you've got to be able to ask questions. Doesn't matter if you sound stupid.

The 'what' is easy. It's the 'why'.

What if you're wholly wrong?

For the love of god, Oedipus, tell me too, what is it? Why this rage? You're so unbending.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!

it's more important to struggle with a question than to come up with an answer.

...There's a lot I don't understand...but not understanding is better not believing" - Ambrose

If you look at 4-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions. But by the time they are 6½ years old, they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

we must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity, in our workplaces, our homes, and especially in our schools.

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.