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Quotes About Inquiry

Never lose your curious mind.
~ Debasish Mridha
The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.
~ John Dolan, Everyone Burns
Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question.
~ Chloe Thurlow
A questioning man is already half wise.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
A question impresses me more than an answer.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.
He who wishes to know, must seek to understand.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If people don't want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.
~ Michelle Templet
Let children wander aimlessly around ideas.
~ Sugata Mitra
Children are the greatest philosophers : the questions that children ask require the deepest of thoughts and the longest of reflections on life!
~ Avijeet Das
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
~ Marty Rubin
Curiosity is the driving force that propels humanity forward.
~ Debasish Mridha
Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.
~ Laurie Gray
How can you find answers, if you do not ask questions?
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?
~ Mary Oliver
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.
~ Mary Oliver
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.
~ Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
~ Ronald Reagan
Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.
~ Phil Ochs
If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
~ Tariq Ramadan, What I Believe
Yes, and you should question your government.
~ Jessica Lange
Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.
~ Diana Whitney
The motive of man is a mystery.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita