Quotes About Inquiry

The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.

Notice how often he reframes the question (examines whether the question is the right question) before answering. In several cases, how he dissects wording is as interesting as his answers.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

the best thing to do is give people questions they're not expecting.

what if I asked 100+ brilliant people the very questions I want to answer for myself? Or somehow got them to guide me in the right direction?

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Why not? Yeah

The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds.

The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.

You can ask me anything. I'm an open book.

If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

I ask merely for information.

Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?' 'I couldn't say, sir.

Lady Kimbuck gave tongue. She was Lord Evenwood's sister. She spent a very happy widowhood interfering in the affairs of the various branches of her family.

But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is. Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.

Puedo preguntar a mi libro si es verdad que yo lo escribí?

Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?

The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindus say, 'traveling the path of existence through thousands of births' ... there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge; no wonder that she is able to recollect... what formerly she knew.... For inquiry and learning is reminiscence all."-Emerson.