Quotes About Inquiry

In other studies, the philosophy is made explicit by a special section in the study—typically in the description of the characteristics of qualitative inquiry often found in the methods section. Here the inquirer talks about ontology, epistemology, and other assumptions explicitly and details how they are exemplified in the study. The

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

When You Start Having All the Right Answers, You Will Stop Asking All the Right Questions. The path to success lies in the realization that there is always more to learn.

Socrates was famous in Athens for saying, "Know thyself." It is said that one of his students said to him: "Socrates, you go around saying 'Know thyself,' but do you know yourself?" Socrates was said to have replied, "No, but I understand something about this not knowing.

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

Every father says the same thing: "Where's your mother?"

Doubt is the father of invention.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

IGNORANCE is being SILENT when you cannot find an ANSWER and a REASON to ASK.

Existence is not enough; curiosity and knowledge is more important.

Question the questioning, question the questions and question the answers.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

Life is a question asked by God about the way He exists.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The journey of life is shaped by the questions we ask. Questions give us a path to walk down on and a direction to follow. They create boundaries for us to operate in.

It is not what you say, it is the questions you ask that are important. The only stupid question is the one you dont ask.

Growth is more about asking than telling. The way forward is yours for the taking, the way forward is yours for the asking.

If you never ask questions, you'll never get answers. You can just wait for the solution to drop out of the sky, but sometimes you have to take initiative. Consider this a nudge. You have every right to question something that feels off in your life.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.