Quotes About Inquiry

As persons committed to the examined life, each of us must take a stand on each of these questions--however provisional and preliminary that stand may be.

Do not let anyone tell you that these people made work of play. They simply realized that the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.

Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.

Anyone who spotted a weed in a neglected field—a nice wild sorrel, say—and wanted to know whether it had come from a seed that had sprouted in the field, was blown in by the wind, or had been dropped there by a bird, would never, no matter how long they pondered it, reach a conclusion

Her sister?" Erik asked. "Weekday or weekend?

Afternoon. I'm Rick. What can I do you for today?" "Put the preposition in the right place.

Ask a series of questions, perhaps three to five, and after each, wait and sense the Universe's response to each question.

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.

Recherches philosophiques sur les Americains.

What, it may be asked, is the true spirit of the institution itself? Is it not designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men? If this be the design of it, who can so properly be the inquisitors for the nation as the representatives of the nation themselves?

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Kühner, als das Unbekannte zu erforschen, kann es sein, das Bekannte zu bezweifeln.

The supreme good—to examine everything—a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO

In the absence of homework, "students come in all the time and hand me articles about something we talked about in class or tell me about a news report they saw. When intrigued by a good lesson and given freedom [from homework], they naturally seek out more knowledge.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

The stuff I like watching is the stuff that leaves you with a lot of questions when it's finished.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

I grew up during Watergate. I was enamored of the study of that.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.