Quotes About Inquiry

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

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

Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny."

That is so personal, and it's my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it's always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.