Quotes About Inquiry

Not every English sentence beginning with the word why is a legitimate question.

The mystic is content to bask in the wonder and revel in a mystery that we were not 'meant' to understand. The scientist feels the same wonder but is restless, not content; recognizes the mystery as profound, then adds, 'But we're working on it.

we search on our own and we search on behalf of ourselves. Whatever

It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO

At times it feels as if life itself is the greatest loser, the true bereaved party, because it is no longer subjected to that radiant curiosity of hers.

The trouble was, how could you know what question to ask? It seemed to her that you were in a position to ask a really correct question only if you already knew the answer, and what was the point of that?

Still, I'm not curious enough to find out. At this stage I prefer not to know.

The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale? I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.

Okay, I'll ask. How come you're being sued? And how come you're so calm about it?" "I might as well be calm," she said. "Getting all worked up won't do any good.

had made them stop. "Did they throw stones at the man who spit in his drink?" Judith wanted to know.

They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?

The philosopher Karl Popper (1902–94) often remarked "We don't know anything" and believed that this was the most important philosophical truth.16

Good God! What in the hell was that noise?" The man in front of them turned in his seat. "That's what I've been asking myself this half hour and then some

Where you fro, miss?

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Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

Filosofia se tr?deaz? pe sine atunci când degenereaz? în dogmatism, adic? într-o ÅŸtiin?? fixat? în formule, definitiv?, complet?. A face filozofie înseamn? a fi pe drum; în filozofie întreb?rile sunt mult mai importante decât r?spunsurile, ÅŸi fiecare r?spuns devine o nou? întrebare

How would I know which one I was?

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

it was one of those questions you couldn't ask in case he were to tell the truth.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.