Quotes About Inquiry

Philosophy begins in wonder.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Philosophy is everybody's business.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Philosophy is doubt.

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

Whenever I have doubt, I often use epistemological methods or dialectic methods to come to a rational conclusion.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.

Who I am? Am I thinking?

Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity.