Quotes About Inquiry

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.

You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

No one ever questions where all these pictures in magazines and books come from.

Why am I holding a dog full of angels?

Writing, which is my form of celebration and prayer, is also my form of inquiry.

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Just what kind of a person are you, Miss Lea?" I fixed my mask in place before replying

I smiled into the clever eyes. "Find out for me," I said, "whether Oliver

her to me and asked if I

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.