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Quotes About Inquiry

There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Ensino é] descoberta com auxílio
~ Mortimer J. Adler
1. WHAT IS THE BOOK ABOUT AS A WHOLE?
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Ask questions while you read—questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Phil pursed his lips over his fangs. Are you in league with Public Works, do you have any history with zoëtism, fortune telling, or anyone in coterie society? -Does a fing look swart to the zooloofills? Phil stared at her blankly. I have no idea-- -Exactly, she interrupted. 'I don't know what you're talking about either.
~ Mur Lafferty
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
~ Murakami Haruki
You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…
~ Muriel Spark
Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.
~ Myles Horton
After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?
~ Naomi Novik
After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?
~ Naomi Novik
Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.
~ Napoleon Hill
porque nadie pregunta por aquello que prefiere ignorar.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Na és maga, hogy áll a nÅ'kkel, Daniel? - Igazság szerint nem tudok róluk túl sokat. - Tudni senki sem tud róluk sokat, még Freud sem, sÅ't, talán még Å'k maguk sem, de nem is kell. Olyan ez, mint az elektromos áram: ahhoz, hogy megüssük vele az ujjunkat, nem szükséges tudnunk, hogyan m?ködik.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I have a condition that prompts me to want to know the truth at all times. You can't imagine the amount of distress this ailment brings to those of us who could otherwise live so content in a state of blissful ignorance.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask—the fish?
~ Carol Ellis
According to Piaget, the best strategy for preschool curriculum is to keep children curious, make them wonder, and offer them real problem-solving challenges, rather than give them information. Many adults still hold the notion that a teacher is someone who shares information. Using Piaget's theory about children's learning requires changing the image of teacher into someone who nurtures inquiry and supports the children's own search for answers.
~ Carol Garhart Mooney
WHICH way is Melborne?
~ Carolyn Keene
In your mind, this is clearly a scientific endeavor." "Of course. The best way to approach any line of inquiry is through the scientific method." I was quite fond of postmodern literary analysis myself, as a line of inquiry. "What drew you to the scientific study of a subject that most people are all too happy to dismiss as folklore?
~ Carrie Vaughn
We know hardly anything about anything.
~ Catherine Aird
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
~ Celia Green
Excuse me, you taught trope in Theresienstadt?
~ Chaim Potok
And, since I had learned that whites were once enslaved as generally as any other race, how did it come about that slavery was finally concentrated in Africa on Blacks only? In short, no books or other studies in high school and college answered or gave clues to answers to the problems that puzzled me the most.
~ Chancellor Williams
Was this the second body I'd found in the closet, or the third? I wondered why I even opened closet doors any more.
~ Charlaine Harris
what are you? he asked. I'm a waitress.
~ Charlaine Harris