Quotes About Inquiry

Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Talk to a Dutch journalist for an hour. He has 38 questions.

George grinned and observed that success is always grounded in simply asking the right question

The question is not whether he read James, but which James he read.

Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

The university should not be a cloister; it should be a laboratory that creates habits of action through inquiry laced with compassion, memory, and fidelity.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." – Dr. Carl Jung

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Of the various tools taught in school, science and thinking skeptically about all claims should be near the top.

In science, however, "God did it" is not a testable hypothesis. Inquiring minds want to know how God did it and what forces or mechanisms were at work. "God works in mysterious ways" will not pass peer review. Even such explanations as "belief in God" or "religiosity" must be broken down into their component parts to find possible causal mechanisms for the links between belief and behavior that lead to health, well-being, and longevity.

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing…. I do not understand it…. Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is E?___, which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

To philosophize is to doubt.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it.

Lõpuks hakkab inimene alati huvi tundma kommunaalide vastu.

It's hard to guess why that range is not called upon.

I never knew there was a whole denomination as full of questions as I was.")