Quotes About Inquiry

The snowball effect of reinforcing advocacy can be stopped, by beginning to ask a few questions. Simple questions such as, "What is it that leads you to that position?" and "Can you illustrate your point for me?" (Can you provide some "data" or experience in support of it?) can introject an element of inquiry into a discussion.

gong to stay at a friend's." "Who? A girlfriend?

If you look at four-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions and wondering how things work," Gregersen observed generally. "But by the time they are six and a half years old they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

Don't ask, don't get.

Just tell me why; why the fucking why? To which the universe would hollowly respond, My ways cannot be known, oh man. Which is to say, My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me.

As you go to your grave your mouth will be still open, asking the question, "What did I do?" You will be buried that way: with your mouth still open. And I could never explain it to you, Buckman thought. Except to say: don't come to the attention of the authorities. Don't ever interest us. Don't make us want to know more about you.

Why?" Eric asked. Now the crux of the matter had been broached;

To ask the question and wait for the answer is to know that there will be no answer.

Du bist ein Feind der Kirche, Lee Scorsby. An ihren Füchten sollt ihr sie erkennen, an ihren Fragen die Schlange sehen, die an ihren Herzen nagt...

It's hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it's next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he's not interested in something. The boredom itself preempts inquiry; the fact of the feeling's enough.

Does blue have a smell?

Questions, all the questions, everything was a question and there were so few answers.

Pope Sixtus the Fifth?

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: has the Riemann Hypothesis been proven?

aloof , adj . It has always been my habit, ever since junior high school, to ask that question: "What are you thinking?" It is always an act of desperation, and I keep on asking, even though I know it will never work the way I want it to.

I recounted. I rechecked. Are you going to cock?

Whats up? he asked. Up, I thought. This, I said, looking down at the photo in my hand. Down, I thought.

Answerless questions can destroy you.

You never asked what my anthem was. But that's okay, because I still don't know what I'd answer.

What took you so long? Elijah doesn't know what to say. Shrugs were invented to answer such questions, so that's just what Elijah does.

Y tú quién eres? –dijo él. –No me confundas –dije yo. Dice Tristram Shandy VII 33.

Have I mentioned looking in Savona, New York, ever? Or in Cambridge, Massachusetts?

Be ye mad, woman?

What the lyric essay inherits from the public essay is a fact-hungry pursuit of solutions to problems