Quotes About Inquiry

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Writing is the ability to ask yourself questions and wait for the answers.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.