Quotes About Inquiry

Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: 'Are you in love? What are you reading?

It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter.

If they're not, then it will serve as a major red flag that the person who's asking them is not an expert in their field. For example, imagine being on the receiving end of the following series of intelligence-gathering questions, asked in exactly this order:

A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making? And are they justified?

The significance test is the detective, not the judge.

It comes back to his math-trained habits of thought. A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making?

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

Touch pain with great curiosity.

La cultura es el fruto de la curiosidad, de esa inquietud misteriosa que invita a mirar el fondo de todos los abismos.

La curiosidad intelectual es la negación de todos los dogmas y la fuerza motriz del libre examen

La historia no se ocupa del pasado. Le pregunta al pasado cosas que le interesan al hombre vivo.

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

Like the meaning of my name, questions follow me wherever I go.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them

She told them everything she could. Garvin asked all the questions; Scarpino, clearly the recessive gene, said nothing, took notes.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

It is better to stir up a question without deciding it, than to decide it without stirring it up.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L——, Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

This is a survey, not an encyclopedia; a study, not a painting; an essay, not a mathematical or historical proof.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Hey, Frankie!" he called. "Benny is black and white, right? Could this be his?