Quotes About Inquiry

Academy, Plato's own school, for hundreds of years – until it came to an end in the first century BC – took its task to be that of arguing against the views of others without relying on a position of one's own.

Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired. "She's fine," Blake growled. "Clearly, she--" "Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?" Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.

One needs a certain base of knowledge before one can ask sensible questions.

Soru soran bir kad?ndan kork,çünkü asla doÄŸru cevap veremezsin.

Why are you here?" she whispered, once he'd finally got the damnable Miss Finch out of the room. For a moment he could only stare. "You're not seriously asking me that." "I—" "You left me." She shook her head. "I set you free." He snorted at that. "You've had me locked up for over a year.

She looked at him in askance.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of.

If you don't know somebody, whether you're inquiring into their sex or their gender, it's invasive.

I love it when people criticize me for inquiring or commenting on someone's marriage when I'm not married.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

I've always been blessed, or cursed, some might say, with an insatiable curiosity, a desire to find something out about a people and a place. That's where it all begins.

I never really knew my 12-inch-long tweezer tongs were special until I started getting 50 Instagram DMs a day about them. Dont you all have these? Well, you should.

I wanted to see how much of an insult it was to be called an ignoramus. I didn't know what it meant; I just Googled it.

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.

The long, forensic interview really matters.

I don't mind anyone asking me any questions, I've got nothing to hide. I like it to be as real as it is, that's what I call an interview.

When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favorite record?'