Quotes About Inquiry

l'histoire est connaissance mutilée. Un historien ne dit pas ce qu'a été..., mais ce qu'il est encore possible d'en savoir.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

How are you?" she asks. The world's most innocuous question, impossible to answer.

The most basic question of all cannot be answered: Who are you?

Ouspensky, do you ever think of how many things you don't know?" Ouspensky laughed. "I like the beginning already". "Think of how many things you stumble to and say, how should I know?" "I never say that, sir" said Ouspensky. "I say, how the fuck should I know?

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

Knowledge emerges only through invention and reinvention, the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry beings pursue with the world and with others.

each day be open to the world, be ready to think; each day be ready not to accept what is said just because it is said, be predisposed to reread what is read; each day investigate, question, and doubt.

Any situation in which some individuals prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence. The means used are not important; to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.

For the dialogical, problem-posing teacher-student, the program content of education is neither a gift nor an imposition—bits of information to be deposited in the students—but rather the organized, systematized, and developed "re-presentation" to individuals of the things about which they want to know more.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...

If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

All you have to do is circulate and listen. If you know what they're talking about, join in. If you don't know what they're talking about, then ask questions,' he relayed as if it was really that simple. 'People don't mind being asked questions. In fact, they like to show off their knowledge. What they don't like is someone pretending to know what they're talking about when they don't.

And the abyss shouts from her depth laid bare, Heaven, hast thou secrets? Man unveils me; I have none.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Mindfulness is a perspective of benign curiosity about all of your inner experience.

An open-ended question invites curiosity.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Hey, Jack, which way to Mecca?

Understand that the task is to shift the demand for the right answer to the search for the right question.

Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice