Quotes About Inquiry

We are all seekers in some way. There are those of us who think they have all the answers and there are those of us who may never get an answer.

There are people who are seekers and people who aren't.

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

Everybody's asking me what type of shampoo I use, and I'm like... 4 years of buildup right here.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.

In trying to understand McCandless, I inevitably came to reflect on other, larger subjects as well: the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons. The result of this meandering inquiry is the book now before you.

Pat was a serious listener. He was one of the first people who really challenged my ideas: 'Do you really believe that? Why? Don't accept everything you read. You should question it all, take what makes sense, and throw away the rest.' He was constantly asking, 'Did you ever consider this? What about that?' He changed the way I thought. (quoting Russell Baer, Army Ranger.)

what do you do all day?" "Actually, FYI," his mother said, "that can be a somewhat awkward question to ask a person.

When he happened to look at Marion directly, it was often to ask, "Where's your sister?

Sometimes it's better not to think in questions, but I can't seem to get out of the habit.

Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about eating animals, they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth.

there were so many different ways to die, and I just need to know which was his.

if I had an answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?

De ce facem asa? De ce lucrurile dureroase sunt intotdeauna niste electromagneti?

Almost always, when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals," they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case. (What assumptions did you make upon seeing the title of this book?)

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

What is a book? A book seems, like a picture, to be a living being; and yet if we ask it something, it does not answer. Then we see that it is dead.In order to make the book into a living thing, he invented—happily for us—the Platonic dialogue, which forestalls the reader's doubts and questions.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.