Quotes About Inquiry

In our environment, we have answers for almost every question we have, it depends on how sincerely we seek them.

Assumptions can be dangerous, JUST ASK!!

The only way to achieve greatness is by unleashing the power of mind, and the only way to unleash the power of mind is by questioning what seems to be unquestionable!

The only way to know the answer is by asking questions. Religion tries to suppress the questions asking (curiosity) because it can threaten its own existence. The truth is out there, go ask for it!

Questions can either bond you or liberate!!! Its all depends on what you ask.

The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it's to answer it.

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

It's not the quality of the answers that changes our lives, it's the quality of the question

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

What are you reading? isn't a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it's really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?

Good books often answer question you did not even know you wanted to ask

As the psychologist Professor Brian Little writes, 'All individuals are essentially scientists erecting and testing their hypotheses about the world and revising them in the light of their experience.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

Education: Being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.