Quotes About Inquiry

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

A Socrates in every classroom.

I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

It's probably the journalist in me, but I'm naturally suspicious about consensus and always feel an impulse to confront it.

I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system.

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.

I will follow this strategy until I discover something that is certain or, at least, until I discover that it is certain only that nothing is certain.

Descartes busca reglas fijas para descubrir verdades, no para defender tesis o exponer teorías.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

and when Archie Goodwin wonders about anything he finds out.

The inquiring mind is rarely blessed with certainty; it must make shift with assumptions;