Quotes About Inquiry

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

Research is creating new knowledge.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Las personas interesantes se distinguen por las preguntas que hacen y las dudas que albergan, mientras que cualquier necio puede estar seguro de todo y ofrecer respuestas que nadie le pide.

Emotional Channeling Technique #1: Ask Courageous Questions

Tell each person that you want to know how he became so successful in his profession. It's the equivalent of placing a piece of chicken on a ramp.

Ask nature questions, and you will get answers.

When you inquire in yourself, all you desire is desirelessness.

Kinnaman found that 36% of young adults with a Christian background said that they didn't feel they could "ask my most pressing life questions in church.