Quotes About Inquiry

Have you any idea how long a ten-inch cock is?

Question, witch-child. Question especially those who would define 'evil' for you.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Before we ask, or when we never get the words out to ask, we have the tendency to make a lot of assumptions.

Por mucho que te esfuerces no vas a comprender las razones por las que una mujer hace tal o cual cosa. Porque las mujeres siempre tienen razones para hacer las cosas, razones que, aunque nosotros no les concedamos importancia, para ellas sí son importantes. Así que ante la duda, lo mejor es preguntar. Siempre. Y no darlo todo por sentado.

Ask Open-Ended Questions When you start to ask questions, never give the participant a chance to simply answer yes or no. The idea here is to ask questions that start a discussion. These questions are bad for starting a discussion: "Do you think this is cool?" "Was that easy to use?" These questions are much better: "What do you think of this?" "How'd that go?

Of course, as the book makes clear, it also owes much to Rear Window and The Daughter of Time, not to mention an article I wrote in 1998, about

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, he rolls onto his back

it; she must find out all she could.

Why Buzz is called Buzz? It's simple: [redacted text]

SnowAngel: who's Bill Gates?

Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood.

Here is the beginning of integrity. A human being who deeply looks into himself or herself and asks: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Why is anything here? Why are other people here? Where is here? and so forth, begins to find within himself or herself their authentic beliefs.

Of each particular thing, ask: "What is it in itself, in its own construction?" —Marcus Aurelius

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Somewhere out there are people who still know her poems, who've hidden scraps of them away in the folds of their minds before setting match to the papers of their hands. He will find them. He will ask them what they remember. He will piece together their recollections, fragmentary and incomplete though they may be, mapping the holes of one against the solid patches of another. And in this way, piece by piece, he will set her back down on paper again.

Most? What does that mean?

Era tão fácil (...) descobrir coisas sobre as pessoas. Estava tudo disponível, tudo sobre elas. Bastava procurar. Era possível descobrir qualquer coisa sobre alguém caso se esforçasse para isso.

inquisitive chirp, a self that curled up at the edges.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

Brave and generous friend, will you let me ask you one last question? I am very ignorant, and it troubles me—just a little.

I wonder," said Mr. Lorry, pausing in his looking about, "that he keeps that reminder of his sufferings about him!" "And why wonder at that?" was the abrupt inquiry that made him start. It proceeded from Miss Pross, the wild red woman, strong of hand, whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover, and had since improved.