Quotes About Inquiry

How much do you know of La Mayonnaise?" she inquired. He shrugged. "Maybe up to the part that goes 'Aux armes, citoyens'—

Are you the man who reads phone books?

Blobb inquired around about the Trystero organization, running into zipped mouths nearly every way he turned.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

When you seek to know all of the answers, your life then becomes limited by that which you already know. When you seek to ask deep and relevant questions, your life is only limited by the extent of your courage and willingness to learn and to try something new.

To keep the place running smoothly, students' behavior becomes more important than their understanding, acquiescence more valued than inquiry

When I want to know a thing, I resort to books and feel strangely exposed without books to fall back on, as though standing on a ledge.

I have to have some answers." "And what if there are no answers?" She held her ground. "Then at least I will have asked the questions.

Were we sexually intimate? What difference could it possibly make to you?

we both know phone inquiries aren't handled that fast. It's been only twenty-four hours since Plato Lowery was informed of the situation. He

you are looking for?

It is I…Allen…Lavi…" "Is that Krorykins?" "Krory?" "Yes…it is I…open the door. Open the door.

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'

Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.

People tend to distance themselves from the insane, as if to inquire is to request an invitation to the same dance.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

The question is how the questioner exists.

The real doubt is the doubt that doubts that it doubts.

Knowledge can be superior; Questions require humility. Knowledge

The greatest fallacy: looking continually for an answer in things that are unanswerable.

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

That is to say, the process of working through an argument is the process of inquiry" (2011, xxii; emphasis in original). The approach Hillocks suggests is the opposite of the traditional approach to teaching the argument paper, where a student starts with a claim and then begins to find evidence that supports the claim. Instead, Hillocks says that students should start with inquiry. They should "swim" in issues until interesting arguments begin to emerge.