Quotes About Inquiry

Müssten wir dann nicht alle an unserer Existenz zweifeln?

New York City vagrant: "What sort of 'nese are you people? Are you Chinese, or Japanese, or Javanese?" Kakuzo Okakura responds: "We are Japanese gentleman. But what sort of 'key are you? Are you a Yankee, or a donkey, or a monkey?

I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'

I'm very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I'm very introspective and self-critical.

People were asking me all kinds of questions about the business, and I was initially put off. I was like, 'Just invest if you want to invest. Don't bother me.'

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

I investigate more directly. I tend to ask a lot of questions and don't feel satisfied until I have the answer.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Writing is investigation.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Our job in Congress is to follow the facts of any investigation wherever they lead.

I've always loved investigations.

Actors are investigators.

We took such a beating on Bofors. As far as I know, no one from my government was involved.

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Let every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule: that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion, and that so much the more care is to be taken in dealing with such questions to keep the understanding even and clear.

Hayward Christian Beach was heard to inquire; "How many knuckles appear on a 'knucklehead'?

Do you want to know who you are? But if you don't know who you are, who is it that wants to know who you are? You can hardly know who you are if you don't know who wants to know who you are.