Quotes About Inquiry

As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she know?

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

Time goes fast, the world is one paradox full of answers and questions.

It seems to me that God would not have endowed us with a mind and a sense of curiosity if he did not mean for us to use it.

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It's read and study. And think about what you're studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask 'why?' And know the answers.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

Curiosity demands satisfaction.

The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

The American religion—so far as there is one anymore—seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

The goal of a voice is to speak not with objective authority but with subjective curiosity.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say Look! and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.

How can we ever stop looking? How can we ever turn away?

Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions. Now I think there is only one subject worth my attention and that is the precognition of the spiritual side of the world and, within this recognition, the condition of my own spiritual state.

I want the poem to ask something and, at its best moments, I want the question to remain unanswered.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information, where he offers graciously his deep findings. While the man who has only questions to comfort himself makes music.