Quotes About Inquiry

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal shrug?

Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality.

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'