Quotes About Inquiry

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.

We must go and see for ourselves.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Human beings are curious by nature.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

Again, I repeat, don't ask questions you don't want answered. Just accept the fact that Acheron is a freak of nature and let it go. (Zarek)

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.