Quotes About Inquiry

know what question he's trying to answer? "I have not the slightest idea. Tenga always had a question he was trying to answer. If he succeeded, he immediately chose another one, and so on. He may have answered a hundred questions since I last saw him, or he may still be gnashing his teeth

Shucks, this is one of the bad things about talking to librarians, I asked one question and already she has us digging through three different books.

Nietzsche suggests that "if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." In

One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind.

Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.

If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish, and the student can draw useful conclusions even from a remote or peripheral topic.

But then how can we trust ancient wisdom, whose traces you are always seeking, if it is handed down by lying books that have interpreted it with such license? Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Yo sospecho, sospecho siempre.

Los libros no están hechos para que uno crea en ellos, sino para ser sometidos a investigación. Cuando consideramos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué significa

Adso —me dijo con impaciencia el maestro—, aprende a razonar con tu cabeza. —Después cambió de tema—: Ahora debemos interrogar a algunas personas. Al menos —añadió mientras exploraba la meseta con la mirada— mientras sigan vivas.

Kitaplar inanmak için deÄŸil, araÅŸt?rmak için yaz?l?r. Bir kitap kar??s?nda onun ne dediÄŸini deÄŸil, ne demek istediÄŸini sormal?y?z kendi kendimize.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it

De omnibus dubitandum (Doubt everything)

The 4Q refers to the four questions that we suggest leaders ask customers in person (not on a survey): 1. How are you doing? 2. What's going on in your industry/neighborhood? 3. What do you hear about our competitors? 4. How are we doing?

We have the answers, all the answers; it's the question we do not know.

Without questions there are no answers. And without answers no truth, no progress, no future.

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

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

It is a terrible thing to interrogate the shadow. Who knows what its reply will be?