Quotes About Inquiry

Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

Nunca se podra encontrar a quien no quiere ser encontrado.

El problema no estaba en conseguir la respuesta, sino en formular la pregunta precisa.

La curiosidad es la madre de todos los pecados, pero también de todas las ciencias.

What reasons do you have to be sad, child?" "That's what my husband asks me. I don't know, Victor, I suppose you don't need reasons; it's part of your nature.

I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

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.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.

To end with certainty, we must begin with doubting.

If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name?

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

As someone who asks questions for a living, there are few things that annoy me more than people who won't ask for themselves. Social media is a great help, but so is something as simple as turning on your television or powering up your laptop to watch a smart news show.

When people feel a certain religion claims to have all the answers, that's what turns them off.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''