Quotes About Inquiry

Even the genius asks questions.

Even the genius ask questions.

Another approach is to ask the person a substantive question, based on your knowledge of his or her previous employment history. Most importantly, it should be a question you really want to know the answer to.

Caring about their answers will put the other person at ease, but more importantly, it will often put you at ease too. It will get them—and you—into the mode of inquiry, the mode of curiosity, the mode of conversation, and the mode of learning. It will signal that you feel you can learn from them, and encourage them to feel comfortable responding in kind. Most importantly, it will take you out of the realm of the dull, obvious, phony job interview.

You are living. As soon as you introduce the question "how to live?" you have made of life a problem. "How" to live has made life meaningless. The moment you ask "how," you turn to someone for answers, becoming dependent.

freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

When someone says, That's a good question. You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.

A prudent question is one half the wisdom.

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.

Her eyes traveled over the row of Encyclopedia Thaumaturgica, and paused at the gap, one book wide, for volume Q. If Cook threw away volume Q, why is there a gap at all? Shouldn't P and R just be jammed up against each other?

science should be question driven, not methodology driven.

I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvious that a four-pound rock would plummet earthward twice as fast as a two-pound rock that no one ever bothered to test it. That is, until Galileo Galilei came along and took ten minutes to perform an elegantly simple experiment that yielded a counterintuitive result and changed the course of history.

Of course, you could live without asking questions, just live the way life comes, float with the current, but, I'm crazy that way: I must know why and wherefore, dig down to the truth myself. That's why I'm a man.

I would rather live with unanswered questions than unquestioned answers,

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Getting people to think about what they think, and asking them questions about it, is the best way I know how to teach.