Quotes About Inquiry

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

I posted some songs on MySpace, and right away people started asking, 'Where can I get a CD?'

We need to get answers to who in the Trump campaign was talking to the Russians throughout that campaign effort and what Donald Trump knew about any conversations that happened.

When growing up, there were never any conversations about the past, because if you don't ask the questions, you never get the answers.

I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'

Food attracts a kind of nerdishness like any other sort of passion, and 'Cooks' Questions' is for those people who want to find out more.

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

I think the best learning takes place when you create an atmosphere of curiosity and excitement.

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.