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Quotes About Inquiry

The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want
~ Sigmund Freud
Love knows no answer for it does not question.
~ silent lotus
Herodotus is said to have remarked, 'Every year we send ships at great cost and danger as far as Africa, to ask "Who are you? What are your laws? What is your language?"' Why is it, he asked, 'they never send ships to ask us'?
~ Simon Jenkins
Am I a Jew? [ . . . ] Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?
~ Simon Webb
One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: "I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair.
~ Simon Winchester
Rebecca, see if you can get a twenty on Alex Hammond. I
~ Simon Wood
Was Paco in here?
~ Simone Elkeles
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
~ Sir Isaiah Berlin
I love to lose myself in a mystery, to pursue my Reason to an O altitudo!
~ Sir Thomas Browne
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.
~ Jay Maisel
I believe in everything until it's disproved.
~ John Lennon
What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?
~ Samuel Beckett
I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.
~ Scott Hicks
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
~ Danielle Fishel
Questions are creative acts of intelligence.
~ Francis Kingdon Ward
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.
~ Sam Kean
Love knows no answer for it does not question.
~ silent lotus
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
~ Jackson Rathbone