Quotes About Inquiry

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than at imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

William James used to preach the 'will to believe.' For my part, I should wish to preach the 'will to doubt' ... what is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves.

One of the defects of all philosophers since Plato is that their inquiries into ethics proceed on the assumption that they already know the conclusions to be reached.

methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate.

Il mondo non ha bisogno di dogmi, ha bisogno di libera ricerca.

To such questions no answer can be found in the laboratory.

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

To such a man [without philosophy] the world tends to become definite, finite, and obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life. ???

KuÅŸkuculuk ac? verici olabilir, k?s?r olabilir ama en az?ndan dürüsttür ve hakikat aray???n?n bir sonucudur. Belki de geçici bir evre olabilir ama içinde bulunduÄŸumuz çaÄŸdan daha büyük aptall?klar?n yaÅŸand??? bir ça??n ?skartaya ç?km?? inançlar?na geri dönerek daha hakiki bir kaç?? olana?? yaratmak mümkün deÄŸildir.

It is really this that makes death so hard — curiosity unsatisfied.

Why do you take Him to court for not answering anything a person asks? Job 33:13

Curiosity is the far nobler sister of novelty. Curiosity invokes study. By definition, it is "interest leading to inquiry."[1] It does not look for diamonds on blades of grass; it looks for dew. If it's looking for diamonds, it mines. Curiosity isn't satisfied to climb a hill and then move on. To borrow words from Deuteronomy, it digs copper from them (Deuteronomy 8:9).

I know we journalists have a reputation for being cynics. We do. It's our job to question - everything.

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Some art needs to be hung on the wall and stared at inquisitively, while other pieces require a more active approach.

We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.