Quotes About Inquiry

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

A wisdom-loving man must be inquiring into many things. (35)

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

How can I render uninterrupted interrogation that has been lasting the last 7 years? That's like asking Charlie Sheen how many women he dated.

Replace judgment with curiosity.

So many reporters ask a lot of crazy questions. The answers to most of these questions are so obvious, but they ask them anyway just to see what kind of reaction they can get out of you.

The first step in good reporting is good snooping.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

People comment on my voice. They always ask me if I'm ill.

I have never had anything done. I've been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it's nobody's business but my own.

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts

My secret demon is called: What's the use?

Bernard Bailyn

To what extent is Chan amenable to a historical approach, if it is indeed? Can this teaching, as [D. T.] Suzuki thought, traverse the claim of history in the name of its own temporal character? If not, to what extent is it threatened by the results of the historical inquiry?