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Quotes About Inquiry

That's the first thing you said to me. I was just wondering why you're here. My seven words. I've been wondering the same thing for so long.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers." I
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The desire for knowledge shapes a man," he said.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The Chancellor looked down at the paper in front of him. He cleared his throat. "Re'lar Ambrose, are you a donkey?
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sometimes it's not worth questioning authority because it usually won't know the answer.
~ Unknown
What of that bar you told me about – Dago Mike's? Someone there might know something. We could go there and question them vigorously." "You mean beat on them until someone talked.
~ Unknown
Question everything.
~ Patti Smith
Hey, sister. What's your situation?" "On earth or in the universe?" p.27
~ Patti Smith
I was busy thinking about the mystery of expanding network of seemingly unasawerable questions.
~ Patti Smith
He who fails to question is asking for trouble.
~ Unknown
We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.
~ Unknown
My brain is open.
~ Unknown
Scholars in a great many disciplines focus their studies on human beings. The main differences between the disciplines are not the objects of their study nor even the methods they use, but the points of view that guide their inquiries.
~ Unknown
I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it that it would have no time to groan and moan and shake its chains.
~ Paul Kearney
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
~ Paul Nurse
The standard FBI questionnaire designed to ferret out communists or "communist sympathizers" included an inquiry as to whether the suspect had black friends. Black politicians and establishment leaders responded by keeping a low public profile
~ Unknown
only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
~ Paul Tillich
Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.
~ Paul Tillich
Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.
~ Paul Tillich
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
~ Paul Tillich
The answer I found was in a question: 'Why not?' because 'Why not?' stopped you from asking yourself 'Why?'.
~ Unknown
El dolor es siempre pregunta, y el placer, respuesta
~ Paul Valery