Quotes About Inquiry

Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?

Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what its told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people who ask questions.

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?

MATH: THE ONLY PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN BUY 87 WATERMELONS AND NOBODY WONDERS WHY.

What?" said Kyle. "How can a number have a past tense?

Independent inquiry is essential in our search for truth. Each of us must strive to actively discern truth for ourselves rather than simply looking to or relying upon external authority figures to give it to us. If we allow another person or group to give us truth, or merely accept their truth as our own, we are depending on someone else for our spirituality, for our enlightenment, for our happiness, our success, etc.

Qui parle, et pourquoi, voilà la seule question.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

I want to be wrong. I want this all to have a reasonable...

Where is he?" Bell asked. "Do you think something might have happened to him?" Walter asked anxiously. "Latimer? Or maybe...

Try Reiden," he said. "My God," Walter said, putting his own food aside and grabbing the pencil.

Belly?" he called. "Belly, are you here?

Where the hell is Nina?

Where can I go. Is it possible to imagine a world, a time, where I would have a place. There's no one I could ask. That's the answer.

Who are you, Christina Olson? he asked me once. Nobody had ever asked me that. I had to think about it for a while.

It's really none of your business...

In Mr. Reed's classroom there's a photo of Molly Molasses taken near the end of her life. In it she sits ramrod straight, wearing a beaded, peaked headdress and two large silver brooches around her neck. Her face is dark and wrinkled and her expression is fierce. Sitting in the empty classroom after school one day, Molly stares at that face for a long time, looking for answers to questions she doesn't know how to ask.

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

The ultimate goal of this book is to present fragments from an epic about an animal that evolved, started talking, started talking about the fact that it was talking, and then paused briefly before asking itself how it started talking in the first place.

Jean asked her sister, "Am I?" "Are you?" she asked back.

Did you enjoy prison?' Mitchell asked. When they started asking really stupid questions was when you knew you'd truly pissed them off. 'Do you want to go back there?' 'To be honest, if it was between prison and connecting in Terminal Five at Heathrow, I'd choose T5. Just. So no.

since 'nothing can be begun with certainty, it's better we begin with doubt'.