Quotes About Inquiry

In fact, I think more broadly about what an audience requires, but I want an audience to be fascinated by the process of finding an answer, or finding out there isn't one.

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.

Dammit, Dresden, if you want to know about me, wait for the autobiography like everyone else.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

She didn't have a daddy?" I asked. "No." "Did you have a daddy?" "You're all questions, aren't you? No, love. We never went in for that sort of thing. You only need men if you want to breed more men.

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

You don't have to close your eyes or even look up to find an answer you just have to want an answer to come, and then ask.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love." So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.

It has always been my belief that Protestants, born with innate knowledge of all things botanical, cannot help but think less of you if you have to ask.

Dan Philosophy is what you do when you don't yet know what the right questions are to ask.