Quotes About Inquiry

Life is a question without a standard answer.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Man by Nature desires to know.