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Quotes About Inquiry

He found himself still with too many questions and not enough answers.
~ Stephen King
When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.
~ Stephen King
C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.
~ Stephen King
The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don't ask.
~ Stephen King
Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered.
~ Mansi Soni
Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.
~ Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
~ Confucius
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I am one of the people who love the why of things.
~ Catherine the Great
When you love something, you'll always come back to it. You'll always keep asking questions, and finding answers.
~ Kobe Bryant
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word.
~ Elie Wiesel
Never lose a holy curiosity.
~ Albert Einstein
Can whoever left me a voicemail please send me a text telling me whether it's worth listening to?
~ Johnny McNulty
Um silêncio aturdido é diferente de qualquer outro, percebi nesse momento. Estende-se, ganhando peso, e depois implode sob o peso das perguntas por fazer.
~ Jojo Moyes
He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.
~ Jon Krakauer
She could have ... People still wanted to know.
~ Jon McGregor
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
~ Jon Meacham
He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.
~ Jon Meacham
I always tried to really motivate kids by getting them excited about stuff – and even being a little mysterious about it, just saying, "I don't know. We got this stuff. We have to figure it out. It's up to you guys," and then lay something on them. And I always found that really piqued their interest better than lecturing them.
~ Jon Scieszka
Hillary began to home in on one line of inquiry. Do I have to build a big national footprint or can I rely on the Democratic National Committee, state parties, and outside groups to shoulder some of the burden?
~ Jonathan Allen
His aim, in all his investigations, was the discovery and the defence of truth.
~ Jonathan Edwards
opens it." "So what're you
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.
~ Jonathan Kirsch
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
~ Jonathan Miller