Quotes About Inquiry

Para convertirse en un observador de sí mismo, de los demás y del mundo hay que tener una mentalidad de principiante, de alguien que reconoce que no sabe y que quiere saber. Y esto no es posible sin el interés que despierta la curiosidad.

The Greek excellence in mathematics was largely a direct consequence of their passion for knowledge for its own sake, rather than merely for practical purposes. A story has it that when a student who learned one geometrical proposition with Euclid asked, "But what do I gain from this?" Euclid told his slave to give the boy a coin, so that the student would see an actual profit.

I can't help thinking: Am I related in some traceable way to all redheads, if there were any such genetic thing as "all redheads"?

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

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How did a nice girl like me get into a mess like this?

Oftentimes the thing that makes the difference between a good student and a poor one, a good learner or a bored human being, is just a little curiosity. If you have it, cultivate it, feed it. Never let it go. If you do not have it - get it. Wonder, watch, ask questions, be alive. It's just that simple

There is a theory in organizational development called appreciative inquiry that I subscribe to as a leader and a parent. Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why

Two last telling details from that congressional inquiry: Mrs. Grinder testified that she witnessed Lewis crawling outside, begging for water, in the moonlight. I have examined records of the phases of the moon for that year: there was no moon that night.

If you want to change your stereotypes, seek first-hand experience. Do not believe everything you are told. Find out for yourself. Talk

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You can't be curious and on the attack at the same moment.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

I am somewhat skeptical about these findings.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

The dumbest question I was ever asked by a sportswriter was whether I hit harder with red or white gloves. As a matter of fact, I hit harder with red.

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?