Quotes About Inquiry

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. –Mark Twain

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was.

He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was all done by

A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives—NOBODY TO BLAME.

What's the name of the first point above New Orleans?' I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question.

Crossword?" he would ask.

Are you looking at a dead man now?

Do you still play the accordian?

Who let the dogs in? ...This, we fear, is going to be the question. Who let the dogs in? Who let the dogs in? Who? Who?

Are snoopers snooping on their own pain? Probably.

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.

Questioning is the piety of thought

Initially we understand nothing at all, and for this reason we ask.

Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue this unhappy family?

To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.