Quotes About Inquiry

What kinds of things and people might learners want to be in contact with in order to learn?

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.

Learning happens when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Wonder is humankind's primal emotion

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)

We're not asking the real question, are we?" Letha the philosopher says, then. "What do you mean?" Jennifer asks. "Craven or Carpenter? Jason or Freddy? Psycho or Peeping Tom? Bava or Argento?

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son of investigation, Investigation, the son of knowledge, Knowledge, the son of understanding, Understanding, the son of wisdom, Wisdom, the son of Surrender to the Divine Will. The

Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem.

I wished at that moment that the Wests had killed me, it would have been a merciful release from the hell that DC Smith was putting me through. This barrage of questions by DC Smith and his heavy-handedness into this inquiry and his bullying barrack-room interrogation style of interviewing had left me feeling shamed.

Youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Why am I covered in feathers

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

I'm going to get hammered away for asking these questions. Fine. Hammer away. But don't pretend that's the same as answering.

When the abyss gazes into you, bill it.

But Sometimes Ask

public opinion surveys consistently show that people are pro-science as a mode of inquiry, but anti-science as a mode of authority.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

writes it down. "I'll look and see what I can