Quotes About Inquiry

Was that justice?" she said. She sounded as though she honestly wanted to know.

Are you hurt?" asked Sergeant Burns, with reluctant professional solicitude.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

When you don't understand something, it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

My constant curiosity got in the way of my suicide.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

The emperor counsels simplicity. First principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal nature?

Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon , on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.

Question with boldness even the existence of God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

But what would be our readers' reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?

Fish gotta swim Bird gotta fly Man gotta sit and say Why why why

All theology is a kind of birthday Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient…

Had I ever read the Life of St. Bernard by Dom Ailbe Luddy?—

I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.

Before long, Maxine finds herself wandering around clicking on everything, faces, litter on the floor, labels on bottles behind the bar, after a while interested not so much in where she might get to than the texture of the search itself.