Quotes About Inquiry

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Behold the man.

if there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

These questions are futile to answer. Behind the answer there is another answer, and an answer behind that answer, and on and on.