Quotes About Inquiry

Don't trust your teachers.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

It's time to find out what the truth really is that's out there.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

preferring actual ignorance to the appearance of it, he did not ask.

I hated to hound the guy at the sausage table, but I wanted to learn the difference between saucisson à l'âne, donkey sausage, and saucisson du taureau, bull sausage. That donkey stuff tastes, well, just a little different.

What cricket? Grasshopper?

Just like that?" Tony asked idly, once he was comfortable.

Which one of you bitches is my mother?

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

The best teachers will not give you something to drink, they will make you thirsty. They will not give you answers but will put you on a path to seek answers.

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything.

What is the cause of the accident? This question is just as bizarre as asking what the cause is of not having an accident.