Quotes About Inquiry

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.

poet Józef Wittlin inquired in 1946.

Will all this never end?" asked Mr. Hatford. "Why do I get the feeling that I don't even know half of all that's been going on around here?" "'Cause you don't, I guess," Wally mumbled.

Nuts grow on trees?" the spider inquired dubiously.

What do you mean, he?

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

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

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

There you have Socrates' wisdom; [b] he himself isn't willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn't even grateful to them.

But what if there are no gods?

Then you will make a law that they shall have such an education as will enable them to attain the greatest skill in asking and answering questions? Yes, he said, you and I together will make it. Dialectic, then, as you will agree, is the coping-stone of the sciences, and is set over them; no other science can be placed higher—the nature of knowledge can no further go? I agree, he said. But to whom we

Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.

I shouldn't like to take my oath on the whole story, but one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act—that is, that we shall be better, braver, and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

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

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

Philosophy begins in wonder. -Plato

Les prescribirás, pues, que se apliquen particular­mente a aquella enseñanza que les haga capaces de pre­guntar y responder con la máxima competencia posible?

El asombro es la sensación de un filósofo y la filosofía empieza con el asombro

The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)

The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth...

Pero estar ansioso de aprender y ser filósofo ¿No es una misma cosa?