Quotes About Inquiry

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

If you do not know you can always ask, but if you do not know never answer wrong.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

Doubt everything. Find your own light.

faith without doubt is addiction

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

Life has a million questions but just a few answers.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

He asked only for curiosity's sake, because it was his nature to seek out answers, to press others for their weaknesses.

Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.

Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how am, details die with time and stories change.

Who am I to say to you what I'm saying?

viz., that man should not rashly engage in speculation with false conceptions, and when he is in doubt about anything, or unable to find a proof for the object of his inquiry, he must not at once abandon, reject and deny it; he must modestly keep back,

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Suddenly all I had were questions.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it.