Quotes About Inquiry

If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice.

This is a matter of curiosity; and you have got a woman for your ally. Under such conditions success is certain, sooner or later.

Prudens quæstio dimidium scientiæ—to know what to ask is already to know half.

But something of the skepticism that injured my religious faith has overflowed into timid doubts of science

Philosophy begins when one doubts one's own beliefs, dogmas, and axioms

I am exceedingly anxious to meet and talk with you, whether you think yourself one of His works, or a particle drawn, of necessity, from eternal and necessary matter. Whatever you are, you are a worthy part of that great whole which I do not understand.82

When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? - The Tyger

In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

Did you ever have a sister? did you?

and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)

You mean you won't?" he said. "You mean, you won't?" It was very much like it had been in the school house: someone holding

Binder, in his youth, had always been interested in the supernatural, had felt some deep and nameless affinity for the questions that did not have any answers.

What's the handle, Zock?

Who are those guys?

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why

The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.

the rhetorical formulas of objurgation with which I was to begin a page of inquiries of you: whether you were dead

Now then. Now then now then. What's all this, then?

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

Curiosity = Wonder + Awe

Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge.

the value of asking more questions and listening to the answers.