Quotes About Inquiry

I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.

It is often the case that only when someone asks you very specific questions do you begin to think clearly about your intentions.

Pimsa," Héctor said, passing the industrial park. "What's that?

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

How's the water? asked her father. It's lovely, she replided. Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.

So goes the world: people talk as if they knew everything, and when you dare to ask, they do not know anything.

he believed that to answer a child's question before it is asked is to destroy natural curiosity.

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He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

Art is an investigation.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

A good piece of art raises questions.

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.