Quotes About Inquiry

All I know is that I do not know anything

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.

wisdom begins in wonder

Life without enquiry is not worth living.

I drank what?

T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.

I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.]

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "No puedo enseñar nada a nadie. Solo puedo hacerles pensar" (Sócrates)

Damn son, where'd you find this?

Frederick, is God dead?

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

What happened to you, baby?

God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. Ask, woman. Ask.

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

A free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez.

He becomes an auto-psychologist. "What do I know?" he asks himself.