Quotes About Inquiry

Aren't you going too far?" "I'm from New York.

How do you know so much?" Babette said. "I'm from New York.

Et puis aussi, c'était New York, où les gens ne posent pas de questions.

Is it raining," I said, "or isn't it?

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Question everything. I am particularly fond of "stupid" questions. A stupid question asks about things so fundamental that everyone assumes the answer is obvious.

Basically, it means that when searching for the reason, even after you have found one, do not stop: ask why that was the case. And then ask why again. Keep asking until you have uncovered the true underlying causes. Does

Ask "Why?" as many times as may be necessary to get to the root cause of the problem and then fix it so it can never occur again.

We are in need of inquiry into the epistemology of practice. What is the kind of knowing in which competent practitioners engage? How is professional knowing like and unlike the kinds of knowledge presented in academic textbooks, scientific papers, and learned journals? In what sense, if any, is there intellectual rigor in professional practice?

And Harold came into Perpetua's apartment. He said, 'I just want to know one thing. Are you happy?' 'Sure,' Perpetua said. (Donald Barthelme, Perpetua)

I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision.

Stage 1: Curiosity

How Do You Get Past a Person's Curiosity Filter?

Curiosity Isn't Enough

Keep Asking "Which Results In . . ." to Get to Your Solution

Once a customer gets curious about how you can solve their problem, they may come looking for more information. This is where your website comes in.

Is this what retirement would be for him? he wondered. Sticking his nose into other people's business whenever he had the feeling that something wasn't consistent in a story? Must every death come in a tidy package before ex-Commissario Brunetti would leave it alone and let people get on with their lives?

Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.

Cubitum eamus? What? Nothing.

When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

There is nothing I dislike so much in prophetic inquiry as dogmatism or overconfidence. Much of the discredit that has fallen on prophetic study has arisen from the fact that many students, instead of expounding prophecy, have turned into prophets themselves.

Geary looked at Dr. Nasr, running the physician's words through his mind. "We need to be sure we're asking the right question in order to get the right answer? Is that what you're saying?" "Yes. If you only think you know the question, the answers you come up with will not be adequate or correct.

Have you ever wondered who you would be if you hadn't grown up in the Syndicate Worlds?" "You mean, if I'd been born on some Alliance planet?" "Perhaps," Iceni said. "Or perhaps somewhere else. Some star system far away, where they've never heard of the Alliance or the Syndicate Worlds or the war. Suppose you had grown up there? Who would you be?