Quotes About Inquiry

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.

So many men so many questions.

You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself.

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?

Science is always inquiring.

Don't make assumptions.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a one-foot chain.

Ask the next question.

Timothy, are you still black?

How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form a word? 'Why is this so?' I demanded to know.

The fact that we do not have absolute certainty in regard to any human conclusions does not mean that the task of inquiry is fruitless. We must, it is true, always proceed on the basis of probability, but to have probability is to have something. What we seek in any realm of human thought is not absolute certainty, for that is denied us as men, but rather the more modest path of those who find dependable ways of discerning different degrees of probability.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.

We now inquire into the place of the angels. Touching this there are three subjects of inquiry: (1) Is the angel in a place? (2) Can he be in several places at once? (3) Can several angels be in the same place?

For there are some who have such a presumptuous opinion of their own ability that they deem themselves able to measure the nature of everything; I mean to say that, in their estimation, everything is true that seems to them so, and everything is false that does not. So that the human mind, therefore, might be freed from this presumption and come to a humble inquiry after truth, it was necessary that some things should be proposed to man by God that would completely surpass his intellect.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

Thus has the bewildered Wanderer to stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim Desert, this once-fair world of his; wherein is heard only the howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men; and no Pillar of Cloud by day, and no Pillar of Fire by night, any longer guides the Pilgrim. To such length has the spirit of Inquiry carried him.

I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'