Quotes About Inquiry

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me. As if I were not puzzled at myself!

Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!

I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me, In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me, In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me.

I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet

Was somebody asking to see the soul?

When Miss O'Brien looked at me... what did she see that caused her to turn away? What did she see?

Socrates' method of building an argument through gentle queries, he "dropped my abrupt contradiction" style of argument and "put on the humbler enquirer" of the Socratic method. By asking what seemed to be innocent questions, Franklin would draw people into making concessions that would gradually prove whatever point he was trying to assert.

We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Busque el conocimiento por sí mismo.

Leonardo was not content merely to measure every aspect of every body part. In addition, he felt compelled to record what occurs when each of these parts moves.

I started by making pilgrimages to see the originals in Milan, Florence, Paris, Seattle, Madrid, London, and Windsor Castle. That followed Leonardo's injunction to begin any investigation by going to the source: "He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.

computers to them, he asked if he could meet Baez. A few weeks later he and Baez

As he aged, he pursued his scientific inquiries not just to serve his art but out of a joyful instinct to fathom the profound beauties of creation. When he groped for a theory of why the sky appears blue, it was not simply to inform his paintings. His curiosity was pure, personal, and delightfully obsessive.

Who were all these people, so many of them so brown? What was this ritual unfolding around him? I've never seen a German look as German as Clark did when he assessed his likely assessors. His eyes were like small blue coins behind his glasses.

Are ye come light-handed, ye son of a toom whistle?

Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool exists that can accomplish this destruction, and this tool is in your hands. It is simply curiosity—the instinct to ask and to question. It should be kept sharp and used without mercy.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

the government establishes an inquiry office as a guide to the city and a complete stranger refuses to use its services, he is to blame if he gets lost.