Quotes About Inquiry

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Now with all this movie business, everybody's coming around wanting to know everything that's happened since I was four. It's like going to an analyst.

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

All the important parts, yes," I said firmly. "Maybe not all the eccentric details. Ask, and I will answer. What do you want to know?" "Everything." He had been leaning on his elbows, but he pushed back now and gripped the balustrade with both hands. "It's always this way with me: if it can be known, I want to know it.

If it can be known, I want to know it.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

If answers are the destination, questions are the oars.

I don't know anything about science.

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.

Do you wonder that they will

Live the questions.

It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery, as in the case of everyone there is observed supreme love for one's self, and as happiness alone is the cause for love, in order to gain that happiness which is one's nature and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep when there is no mind, one should know one's self. For that, the path of knowledge, the inquiry of the form "Who am I?", is the principal means.

Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.

Youth is the leaven that keeps all these questioning, testing attitudes fermenting in the world.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.

Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you'll get is, "Sure.

Sometimes all you have to do is ask and it leads to all your dreams coming true. Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you get is, "Sure.

One view is that philosophy is a kind of halfway house for questions that have not yet yielded to the scientific method.