Quotes About Inquiry

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an "accident," as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a "fact" because Newton asked certain questions.

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

Peut-être, le temps passant, la question première : « D'où ça vient les enfants ? » laisse-t-elle la place à celle-ci : « D'où ça nous vient, nos pensées ? »

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory.

Was she in love? Rosalind had asked herself that many times in the last few weeks. Anna's mother said you're in love when you feel like you've been hit by a truck. Rosalind felt bad enough for a motorcycle, maybe, but not a truck.

Aunt Claire, may I ask you a question?" "Ask away, young Jedi.

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7)

People who asked questions didn't necessary like being asked questions.

I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.

What does the border look like?" A child's question. A question whose answer means nothing. There is nothing but border. There is no border.

If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask.

What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.

Questions outlive the answers.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer …

If today I am only a question mark, he is responsible.

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.

What is the real goal? Nobody here has even asked anything that basic.

And so, what of it all? What of me and my passions and personas, my great loves and failures of love, my writing, my politics? What of the clanging opinions, the endless queries as to the whys and wherefores of how I chose to conduct myself? In the end, there is but one answer to every question, whether it is spit at me or made as gentlest inquiry: I was I.

Don't ask so many questions. You always ask so many questions. Don't do that. Just...accept things. ...Don't ask questions and don't look back. Believe me you'll be much more content.

Change the question, you know?