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Quotes About Inquiry

And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
~ Janis Karpinski
I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions.
~ Roseanne Barr
One way to solve a mystery is by asking the right questions until answers start to emerge.
~ Brian Stelter
Research is creation of knowledge which leads to new and efficient solutions for the society. Shiv Nadar University, therefore, believes in being at the forefront of research. To create new knowledge, one needs to solve open-ended problems, which basically make one think on one's own.
~ Shiv Nadar
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
~ Georges Cuvier
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.
~ Jostein Gaarder
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
~ Mao Zedong
I consider myself to be a relatively sceptical person. I like to see evidence for myself, and try to avoid speculating beyond available evidence. But I also have to accept some things on trust.
~ Alice Roberts
We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.
~ Dixie Lee Ray
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
~ Michael Haneke
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
~ Euripides
The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart
~ Jeremy Aldana
I don't suppose you have a rocket powered helicopter hidden in your bra?
~ Jackie Williams, Tinted Lenses
why our story have no ending?
~ Shivi
It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.
~ Miriam Toews
Are you seeing anyone romantically? he inquired. No, I'm not, she replied. Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.
~ Mitch Albom
Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
~ Mitch Albom
Why would they want to?
~ Mitch Albom
blurt out was "Why?
~ Mitch Albom
Platon, Devlet'inde ak?lca ve ruhça zay?f olanlara tart??may? yasak etmiÅŸtir. DoÄŸru dürüst ad?m at?p yürümesini bilmeyen bir insanla gerçeÄŸi aramaya ç?kman?n anlam? var m??
~ Montaigne
understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
A mind not agitated by good questions cannot appreciate the significance of even the best answers. It is easy enough to learn the answers. But to develop actively inquisitive minds, alive with real questions, profound questions—that is another story.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
The undemanding reader asks no questions-and gets no answers.
~ Mortimer J. Adler