Quotes About Inquiry

People ask you questions so you can reveal to them God's intention

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?

Good questions outrank easy answers.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

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

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

You can get good science out of stupid questions. If someone says the world is flat, maybe in proving them wrong you can calculate the curvature of the Earth more precisely.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Only good questions deserve good answers.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

The best way to kill a good thing is question it to death.

That," said Harry, "is a really good question.

A good question has many answers.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.