Quotes About Inquiry

Some questions can't be answered." "Why?" "The question why will plague you for your entire life.

What the bloody hell are you, Ms. Lane?

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self.

Does mercy look like my middle fucking name?

You need to talk about it. Explain it. Let people ask questions.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Adev?rata ignoran?? nu este absen?a cunoa?terii, ci refuzul de a o dobândi.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

Haydi mast?rl?lar ve doktoral?lar, k?z??t?r?n ortal???! (Goethe, Faust)

Her usçu Kant ile birlikte ?unlar? söyleyebilmelidir: Felsefe ö?retilemez - olsa olsa felsefe yapmak ö?retilebilir; yani ele?tirel yakla??m. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

How will the world change if we do not question it?

Do not believe too quickly!

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

How is a boy's mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?

Mais la Terre serait plate si personne ne se posait de questions dessus.

Maybe she hadn't asked the right or enough questions because she hadn't wanted to know the answers.

Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.

Sam considered his French fries. "Are there other worlds?

But it does move!

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

Democracy might be defined in different ways relating to contexts and interests; however everyone must accept that the universal beauty of democracy is the right to questioning and reasoning, inquiry for truth and justice.

When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?