Quotes About Inquiry

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

The Pyrrhonian skeptics were docile citizens who followed customs and traditions whenever possible, but taught themselves to systematically doubt everything, and thus attain a level of serenity. But while conservative in their habits, they were rabid in their fight against dogma.

How can we logically go from specific instances to reach general conclusions? How do we know what we know? How do we know that what we have observed from given objects and events suffices to enable us to figure out their other properties? There

In this world, you should always be suspicious of the knowledge you derive from data.

La persona a quien se atribuye la difusión de esta idea del semiescepticismo tendencioso es sir Doktor Professor Karl Raimund Popper, posiblemente el único filósofo de la ciencia a quien leen y de quien hablan los actores del mundo real (aunque es posible que los filósofos profesionales no lo hagan con tanto entusiasmo).

Do not question his procedure, only his confidence.

While I accept the notion of epistemic base, what I question is the role it has really played in the history of technology.

withhold judgment in the absence of evidence

only suckers wait for answers; questions are not made for answers):

Whenever I see that kind of story, where everybody agrees, I know there's something wrong.

In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought—few things hidden from the man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

Exactly," says the parrot. "WHY are you here? Or should I ask 'Why are YOU here?' Or 'Why are you HERE?

You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.

Okay. And what are your pronouns, Jeri?" Jeri found it refreshing that she asked so directly.

You're asked this a lot. Or maybe you're only asked it once, and the other times are just echoes.

Here is where they send in interrogators to ask her questions. "How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

I have yet to decide what is to be learned from this region. Further study is necessary.

Lo más agradable de él era que nunca hablaba, a menos que se le preguntara algo. Nunca le pregunté nada.