Quotes About Inquiry

La manera más fácil de entender el propósito de un invento es preguntarle al inventor. Lo mismo ocurre cuando quieres saber la razón de tu vida: pregúntale a Dios.

We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

Where had Mrs. Borkowski's should gone? (p. 139)

Never enough. We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?

The most profound and difficult questions that could possibly be posed by the human mind or heart will be answered within for the price of one florit.

What you giving me them shifty-eyed looks for?

Too many students, both graduate and undergraduate, think that the aim of education is to memorize settled answers to someone else's questions. It is not. It is to learn to find your own answers to your own questions. To do that, you must learn to wonder about things, to let them puzzle you--particularly things that seem most commonplace.

only way to stimulate the spirit of inquiry is, first to make the person realize that he does not know, and, second, that it is truly possible to know.

What in the hell are you doing running around the parking lot at this hour?" he asked. A not unreasonable question.

It was like going on an archaeological dig through earlier ages of one's mind. There was a bill from a taxidermist in The Plains, Virginia, for example, for a stuffed fox that I for some reason had felt I desperately needed.

We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask.

Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you'll ask, 'Why are bats furry?

We are imprisoned by the truth we dare not see. We are imprisoned by the questions we dare not ask. "I'm asking!" I shouted. "I'm asking and asking and asking, and all I get are riddles and useless visions. What else do you want me to do?

It's easy not to find out things, if you try hard enough.

Don't ask!" said Bevin. "If you ask questions, you'll get answers you don't want.

Qué nos ocurrió?

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin.

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin. —Es mi hermano Philip, señora, el prior de Kingsbridge

solo porque alguien hiciera una pregunta no significaba que hubiera que responder.

What don't I know?

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

What do you want?" and so on might be a few of the questions asked and responded to.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

How could they possibly be Japanese planes?