Quotes About Inquiry

Cartoonist Henri Arnold said, "The wise man questions himself, the fool others.

When you meet someone new, after the introductions and initial pleasantries, don't hesitate. Dive in and ask to hear the person's story. You can do it any number of ways: you can flat-out ask, "What's your story?" You can request that he tell you about himself. You can ask where he is from or how he got into the field he's in. Use your own style.

La habilidad de hacer la pregunta correcta le da la mitad de la victoria en la batalla por encontrar la respuesta".

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

If you die before me, and you are at those pearly gates, ask if you can bring a friend.

Sarcasm is just one of the many services I offer to people who ask dumb questions.

Nothing is more annoying than being in a bad mood for no apparent reason and being asked 'what's wrong?' over and over again.

Don't call my phone and ask me who I am...you called ME!

No one ever answers my questions, but they always question my answers.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

To create, one must first question everything.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.