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Quotes About Inquiry

Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.
~ Hugh Howey
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
~ John Ortberg
The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.
~ W. C. Fields
If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!
~ Sam Donaldson
I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.
~ Doris Duke
The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
~ Walter Savage Landor
What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
~ Seth Godin
Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem.
~ Stephen Richards
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
~ William Gaddis
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
~ Esther Williams
I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.
~ Eartha Kitt
Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.
~ Charley Pride
Ignorance is the mother of research.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
~ Mark Twain
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
~ Voltaire
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
~ W. Clement Stone
It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.
~ Voltaire
The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.
~ Jill Konrath
Every one starts out being an atheist.
~ Andy Rooney
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.
~ Dennis Quaid
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
~ Ahmad Jamal
I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
~ Ben Katchor
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
~ David Attenborough