Quotes About Inquiry

Wonder (???????) is the only beginning of philosophy, and he was a good genealogist who made Iris the daughter of Thaumas

There have been times, Socrates, when I have been driven in my perplexity to take refuge with Protagoras; not that I agree with him at all.

Hitler Almanyas?'nda özel bir tutum yayg?nd?: Bilen konuÅŸmuyor, bilmeyen sormuyor ve soru sorana yan?t verilmiyordu.

Warum? - gli ho chiesto nel mio povero tedesco. - Hier ist kein warum - (qui non c'e' perche'), mi ha risposto, ricacciandomi indietro con uno spintone.

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?

What's your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know. Dean's brother—he hadn't been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn't, either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him. 'My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there. 'Can I call you None for short?

What's burning?" "Your brain.

Who's your daddy?' Myrnin stared at him as if he'd gone completely mental. ' Excuse me?

Mirnin: Where's Shreve?

Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today's lesson. Tota est scientia.

Many children... delight in the small and inconspicuous.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate.

It is more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate." — Rachel Carson, A sense of wonder

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

What had drawn a non-Jewish woman of her generation to this obscure life as a specialist in Jewish studies?

When any man of any nation cries out in his wish to know God, then his questions merit considering.

So Mary spoke always, posing each declaration as a question, soliloquy in guise of conversation.

Why, when the rabbis wished to understand God's will or Augustine the construction of man's soul, did they not reason as Descartes did, taking nothing as given? Must true inquiry proceed from texts and traditions already established, or could the mind on its own perceive all it needed to fathom the world? And which path of inquiry led more straightly to truth? The

La pregunta es hija de la libertad.

Were you always such a snake, the child asked, or did you grow into what you are?

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

The trouble with the what-if game was that once you began to play it, you couldn't just quit whenever you wanted. From one what-if grew another.

Katie says, "What do you know that I don't?