Quotes About Inquiry

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

To listen with an open heart and ask questions to better help us understand the other person is a spiritual exercise, in the truest sense of the word.

The marks of truth, as Christianly conceived, are that it is supernaturally grounded not developed within nature; that it is objective and not subjective; that it is a revelation and not a construction; that it is discovered by inquiry and not elected by a majority vote; that it is authoritative and not a matter of personal choice.

Literature, not science or theology, is the master discipline, the paradigm of inquiry, for postmoderns.

Vlad blinked, unsure where her question was coming from and, more importantly, where it was going.

You have the ability to find all the answers--if you let yourself do so.

A simple inquiry—"What are we going to do about dinner?"—incites an existential crisis, the 742nd of its kind since your wedding day.

Perhaps spirituality is another word for curiosity.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

personal confusion, search, and self-interrogation are more important than any answers could ever be.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science.

A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

Are you who I think you are?

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

It is always better to ask a question than to answer one.

Uncle Monty smiled at the orphans. 'That's quite all right,' he said. 'Questions show an inquisitive mind.