Quotes About Inquiry

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play. Please answer my question, to the best of your ability.

Why did she marry you?" "I think she was fatigued by my importunities. She was not very strong. But it may be that she married me out of pique. She never told me. I did not inquire." "Yet you were very happy with her?" "While she lived, I was ideally happy.

You may ask yourself, Well, how did I get here?

Moo," she answered, which could only be taken for "Why not?

What's up, Doc?

What are you, your fucking mother? ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z

Glup. ¿Quién puede hacer esto?

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

What did you do?

Amazing what happens when you just ask, isn't it?

Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah.

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It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

Tell me, are you still hung up on that boy?' 'Excuse me?' Schuyler asked, holding a test tube. 'Nothing.' Kingsley shrugged innocently. 'If that's how you like to play it.

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

Why do they put cows over the gates, sir? For the same reason we put images of a tortured man in our churches. Religion. You ask too many questions, Sharpe.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. 'What is the egg to the eagle?' he asked me…

What in the holy name of a holy harlot,' Culhwch asked Galahad, 'is a holy ghost?

Who invented my life?

We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?

Philosophy does not concern itself with children. It leaves them to pedagogy. ??????? ?? ???? ???????? ? ???? ?????? ??? ??? ??????? .

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.