Quotes About Inquiry

How's your love-life Ulli? Ulli pictures here love-life as an elusive but rapacious animal which nobody else has ever seen. This is why they keep asking after it.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway? Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?

Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers.

Why are you reading that book? Are you in doubt about something?

Do you think we'd still be standing here if he had shown up? What do you think we'd be doing here?' I asked. I got away with it because I put the question as if I was curious rather than just giving sass. But one of the boys told Louis, 'I guess your girlfriend likes to talk.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

What have you done?

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Dad," he said, "how far away is the sun?" "Five thousand miles," his father said.

People don't ask questions about spiritual matters unless God is at work in their lives. When you see someone seeking God or asking questions about Christianity, you are witnessing God at work.

I will therefore spend this Preface, rather about those, from whom I have gathered my knowledge; For I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe, at my best value.

Pero ¿qué había sido de aquella llama que en Moscú animaba su rostro haciendo brillar sus ojos y prestando luminosidad a su sonrisa?

In reality I was ever revolving round one and the same insoluble problem, which was: How to teach without knowing what to teach.

But why do his ears stick out so oddly? Did he have his hair cut?

He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.

No matter what he thought about, he always returned to these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, but went on turning uselessly in the same place.

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

Leon M. Lederman

The desire to know is natural to good men.