Quotes About Inquiry

Ask whatever questions you want, but remember, I may not answer.

One can lead with no more than a question in hand.

Dee Dee?" Mildred's voice could sharpen pencils. "Where are you?

So we keep asking, over and over Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths- But is that an answer?

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still having sex?

Where is the tuna? Where? Where?

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about them, and we start to learn a bit more about them.

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'

Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

There's been some people I've overheard talking about 'Mindhunter.' I'll lean in and say, 'Hey, I haven't seen it yet. Is it any good?' And they'll say, 'Yeah, you should go check it out.'

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.

I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.

I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.

Man must rise above earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will he fully understand the world in which he lives.

understanding a question is half an answer

I only know that I know nothing