Quotes About Inquiry

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

Man by nature wants to know.

The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

Dear God, woman,"said Will. "Are there any questions you don't want to know the answer to?

Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead." "No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead." "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

It plagues the young, this need to find reasons for things.

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To know too much is to lose the wonder of mystery. In answering every question we forget the value of not knowing.' 'There