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Quotes About Inquiry

Open your eyes. It looks kind of creepy, and I think the lady at the nearest table wonders if you've got narcolepsy." I
~ Unknown
Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana?
~ Lynn Viehl
To be a true explorer in science—to follow the unprejudiced lead of pure scientific inquiry—is to be unafraid to propose the unthinkable, and to prove friends, colleagues, and scientific paradigms wrong.
~ Lynne McTaggart
It's Good to Ask the "What" Questions but Less Helpful to Ask "Why
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Again,—we are gifted with a desire of knowledge, which is stimulated, rather than satisfied, by acquisition. We are here placed in the midst of objects of inquiry, which meet that desire; and there is still an unexplored physical, mental and moral creation around us. Here then are supplied the means of our further intellectual growth.
~ Lysander Spooner
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
~ M Scott Peck
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
~ M. C. Escher
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful.
~ Unknown
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. I do not know what we may do, to know another better.
~ Unknown
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.
~ Unknown
What was I truly? In the end, I could not bear to know.
~ Madeline Miller
Oh,clever... what's the use of that? Are they human beings?
~ John Fowles
No es el poco saber lo que genera necesariamente la ignorancia: saber demasiado, o querer saber demasiado, puede producir el mismo resultado.
~ John Fowles
Remember: The answers are in the questions.
~ John G. Miller
inquiry of Jack Cardigan: 'What's the use of keepin' fit?' or, more simply, to the fact that he was a foreigner, or alien as it was now called.
~ John Galsworthy
1956, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a case known as Bishop v. United States, ruled that the conviction of a mentally incompetent person was a denial of due process. Where doubt exists as to a person's mental competency, the failure to conduct a proper inquiry is a deprivation of his constitutional rights.
~ John Grisham
drug charge. When I asked Lonnie about it
~ John Grisham
What's on the high side?" Koane asked.
~ John Grisham
Denny and Rooker were watching too. They had traced the North Carolina license plates on Mercer's car and done the background. They knew her name, recent employment history, current lodging at the Lighthouse Inn, publishing résumé, and partial ownership of the beach
~ John Grisham
Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people." And had I discovered if there were any communists behind the disruptions?
~ John Howard Griffin
Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: "I don't know, exactly.
~ John Irving
Jack had inquired if much music had been written for organ and cello—he certainly hadn't heard any—but the woman from Sibelius Academy said that Ritva and Hannele were famous for being "improvisational.
~ John Irving
won't they?
~ John Irving