Quotes About Inquiry

What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.

What does one say to a woman who has just killed her husband?

He did not know- he simply did not know. But he felt he ought to know.

I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever notices anything anywhere!

All this red tape and form-filling. That's what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can't go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody's always asking questions.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to the seeker after it.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael

What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot.

Everyone's doing research now days, said Tuppence. You know. All the teenagers and all ones nephews or cousins or other people's sons and daughters. They're all doing research. I don't know what actually they do research into nowadays but they never seem to do it whatever it is afterwards. They just have the research and a good time doing research and they're very pleased with themselves and well I don't quite know what does come next.

Compréndanme bien: quiero llegar a la verdad. Ésta, por fea que sea, es siempre curiosa y resulta hermosa para el que la busca con afán.

Lombard thought: Awkward, this—am I supposed to have met them or not? He said quickly: "There's a wasp crawling up your arm. No—keep quite still.

It Isn't Strychnine, Is It?

If it's epilepsy we ought to put a cork in his mouth. Who's got a cork?" Nobody had a cork.

My God, I'm sick of answering questions. I've answered the police questions. I don't feel called upon to answer yours." Poirot said: "Mine is a very simple one. Only this.

Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.

I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.

We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves.

The trouble with a lecture is that it answers questions that haven't been asked.

Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so as to understand it.

Who Do You Think You Are?

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Oh really? You're cold?

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.