Quotes About Inquiry

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

All men desire by nature to know.

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Although I'm a very emotional man, I just can't have blind faith, I have to find out for myself.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

So... I take it that's the man in your life.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.