Quotes About Inquiry

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

When people ask me something, I now rarely answer directly.

One of the best ways to probe whether you can trust the advice that a theory is offering you is to look for anomalies—something that the theory cannot explain

I have such sights to show you. Soon, you will have answers to questions you have never even dared to ask.

Anything interesting?" Joe asked.

The Four Questions?" "As put forth by Mettleheim: How did this happen? How could this happen? Is it exceptional? How will it be avoided in the future?

Even in death the boys were trouble..............Now they had to start a new inquiry, establish the identities of the deceased and the manner of death, and there was no telling when the whole damned place could be razed, cleared, and neatly erased from history, which everyone agreed was long overdue.

Tenemos que dejar de hacernos preguntas sobre el significado de la vida y, en vez de ello, pensar en nosotros como en seres a quienes la vida les inquiriera continua e incesantemente.

Sic nos in sceptra reponis?

Quis furor iste novus?

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

Books - books - books, said Helen, in her absent-minded way. More new books - I wonder what you find in them...

What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.

Do those clowns really believe what they teach?

Another tormentor inquired if it was true that I had installed two ping-pong tables in my basement. I asked, was it a crime? No, he said, but why two? Is that a crime? I countered, and they all laughed.

A szemek. Ada sötétbarna szeme. VégsÅ' soron mi is a szem (kérdezi Ada)? Két lyuk az élet maszkján.

Looking down at her fingernails, she also asked me had I not in my family a certain strange strain. I countered by inquiring whether she would still want to marry me if my father's maternal grandfather had been, say, a Turk.

I almost said—trying to find some casual remark—'I wonder sometimes what has become of the little McCoo girl, did she ever get better?'—but stopped in time lest she rejoin: 'I wonder sometimes what has become of the little Haze girl . . .

Non può esservi alcuna sottomissione – perché il fatto stesso che parliamo di questi argomenti indica che vi è curiosità, e la curiosità è insubordinazione nella forma più pura.

But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need.

Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were a lot easier to take when you were sleeping.

This is'nt like , vampire gay, is it? ~Kynan

Henry Moore: You need to hold questions that cannot be fully completed or lived out within the span of your lifetime.