Quotes About Inquiry

What you don't know would make a great book.

42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

Non-belief and skepticism go hand and hand; always seeking, but never finding the truth.

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

A question is not just there to be answered. It is also there to answer.

Each question is three thousand questions, and a good question provides more questions.

Faith that is allergic to questioning is just fundamentalist blind dogma.

I had started trying—it for the first time, really—it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the edges of it, barely acknowledging even to myself what I was doing, like a kid picking at a scab but afraid to look.

What are you on, Samuel?" This was easier, he glanced down. "Laminate.

You know what happens to people who ask questions. And you know what happens to people who answer them.

Women have that way of asking you more than what they want to know.

El hombre siempre tuvo una mente torcida y se pregunta mil porqués, dándose mil respuestas.

A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn't ask.

Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

Guide me toward the proper course of action, Lord. I recognize that my desire to seek answers, while necessary in scientific endeavors, is not always welcome outside of it. Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean

Given this long and murky lineage, any inquiry into the origin of hunting songs is tantamount to a search for the birth of music itself.

inquiries. You will feel it in the music and cherish it as the most magical part of the jazz idiom. If you don't, you can always leave the jazz club and check out a rock or pop covers band. That's perfect entertainment for people who want to live in the realm of perfect replication. Jazz, in

So our journey became for me also an inquiry into my own psyche, which is what all the best journeys become.

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.