Quotes About Inquiry

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

Your life is an opportunity to question, discover, and explore.

He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why

I asked a shop owner if he could help me out. He said: "What way did you come in?"

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.