Quotes About Inquiry

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

Gone?—gone? What means that little word?—What

Fast-Fish? What

Henry wondered all through the meal whether Warren

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal?

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

Once, however, engaged in the inquiry, I was not very long in finding out the true solution of the matter. It was not color, but crime, not God, but man, that afforded the true explanation of the existence of slavery; nor was I long in finding out another important truth, viz: what man can make, man can unmake. . . .

tending to atheisme.

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious...

As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the goddamn mescaline.

I stared at him, keeping a firm grip on the radio. Not me, I said finally. I'd be happy to ram a goddamn 440-volt cattle prod into that tub with you right now, but not this radio. It would blast you right through the wall-stone-dead in ten seconds. I laughed. Shit, they'd make me explain it-drag me down to some rotten coroner's inquest and grill me about...yes...the exact details. I don't need that. Bullshit! he screamed. Just tell them I wanted to get HIGHER!

And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.

In fact, as I get older, I begin to feel that actually what we need more in the world is doubt; more skepticism, less crazed certainty. . . . People who know the answer and are going to impose it on everybody else, I think, are terrifying people.

Where is Barbie? The female shifter snickered and choked it off. Is there a stripper pole?

As one, the shapechangers turned and looked at me. I wondered what they'd do if I asked to borrow a cup of sugar.

I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.

Attosecond?" Gaston asked. "I'm guessing it's a very, very small fraction of a second," I said. "One quintillionth of a second," George said, without raising his head from his reader. Jack pondered him. "Have you started memorizing random crap again to amuse yourself?" "No, I'm connected to the wireless," George said. "I googled it.

Will you stop meddling in my love life?" I growled. "I'm not meddling. I'm offering commentary.

Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.