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Quotes About Inquiry

A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.
~ Noah Schnapp
My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
When you are a journalist, you are always looking for the next story. It might come from a phone call from a contact or an unanswered question you spot in someone else's article.
~ Fiona Barton
I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.
~ Tom Bateman
Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
~ Rupert Sheldrake
Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.
~ E. B. White
If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.
~ James Webb, Fields of Fire
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
~ Confucius
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
~ Voltaire
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things
~ Heraclitus
Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
~ Julio Olalla
Look for the answer inside your question.
~ Rumi
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
~ Peter Abelard
The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.
~ Flann O'Brien
The first key to wisdom is assiduous and frequent questioning.
~ Peter Abelard
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
~ Roger Bacon
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
~ Clarence Darrow
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom
~ Aristotle