Quotes About Inquiry

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Who am I? Who art Thou? Where is the world?

Do not repeat things without examining them yourself, even if it is a beautiful idiom.

Moses was such a great prophet and philosopher at the same time. He even dared to question and ask for God's real name.

People will always believe in something, without proof, just to feed their curiosity.

Science is not meant to base its teachings on memorisation of facts, but exploration and self experiencing everything in life.

The church is unlike school. Simply, because you can't ask questions while the service is being delivered.

The mystery of knowledge is that once you know, you won't have anything more to ask. Thus, closing the door to ask more exciting questions.

A major part of our inquiry, then, must be to look at the emerging Christian movement and to ask: what caused it? Even if our eyewitnesses disagree in detail, something must have happened.

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.

Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey?

Is she yours?" "Touch her and find out.

Ever since word got out about me and Riley, I've had an uncountable number of teenage girls sidle up to me and ask if wolves are good lovers.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.

because, honestly, which of us really understands why we do the things we do?

Is mayonnaise an instrument?

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

No, miltä näyttää?" hän kysyy. "Erinomaiselta, olette yksinkertaisesti taikuri!" "Olen pelkkä mestari," hän vastaa

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

Wer erst handelt, wenn er eine Antwort hat, wird nie eine finden.