Quotes About Inquiry

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.

We all love to discover for ourselves the causes of problems.  When we do discover for ourselves our energy really moves inside us.  When we are told the answers we might learn a little, but it is nothing like the magic of discovering things through our own questions.

Our task as science educators is to ensure that discussions of values and ethics in science become models of rational inquiry rather than verbal free-for-ails where uninformed individuals generate more heat than light as they share mutual ignorance.8's

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

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I had learned years ago that despite what so many adults always said, there really was such a thing as a stupid question. I had asked a number of them myself over the course of my life. But, I had also learned that life required asking stupid questions every now and then.

Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?

The questions little children ask drive you insane because they never stop. But they also make you think.

If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.

If you don't answer my questions, I'll hurt you. I am authorized.

She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.

Are you asleep?' he asked. 'Are you religious?' I had to put the question. 'Yes,' he replied proudly. 'I'm an atheist.

They hadn't found anything, for what could they have found? But order had been disturbed, peace destroyed.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

The word "doubt" may be interpreted as "becoming the object of doubt itself.

Oriana Fallaci

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.