Quotes About Inquiry

In this blizzard of wonderment, Mike Kami asked me a simple and penetrating question: "What's in the box?" When

Age, confused by its own long accumulation of follies, is everlastingly inquiring, "What does she see in him?" as if young love came about through thinking—or through conduct.

The Commission pressed Churchill: when did he imagine that this would be

In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

So are you the one who killed those cockwombles?" "No.

What do you want?" I asked. No one answered. The van pulled to a quick stop around the corner. The big Asian guy slid in, and the van started up again. He bent down, gazing at me with what looked like mild curiosity. "Why were you at the park?" he asked me. His voice threw me. I had expected something growling or menacing, but his tone was gentle, high-pitched, and creepily childlike.

Sometimes being able to read makes more questions than if you were stupid.

Samuel FB Morse's SECOND question over the telegraph was, Have you any news?

Philosophy is a process of inquiry only. It doesn't attempt to find specific answers to specific questions.

Do you really think so?

My scalp jumped. I stuck my head around the corner. "Sir?" "Go to bed.

You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can't understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.

I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried—the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions.

Never ask a witness a question when you don't already know the answer

Why? Jason asked himself. Why this intense and planetary hatred?

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.

Good question, but no answer. Good questions never have answers.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Are you asking because you really want an answer?

I spend more time being confused than not," I answered.

Are there any capitalist cats? Nakata asked

the world's filled with things I don't know about.

I don't know, but does it matter?

In the same way that people stare up at the sky to see the moon every night, yet understand next to nothing about it.