Quotes About Inquiry

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Go see, ask why, show respect.

Respect authority while questioning it.

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.

For years I have had the belief that all my questions will be answered by the books I'm reading. Books, however, only lead to other books.

start each day with that i don't understand

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer it.

He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say 'we don't know.' For the Professor, there was no shame in admitting you didn't have the answer, it was a necessary step toward the truth. It was as important to teach us about the unknown or the unknowable as it was to teach us what had already been safely proven.

If the relationship between man and God were supposed to consist of man's acceptance of a paragraph of propositions that "raises among ourselves no other questions," there would be no sense at all in God's promising that if man inquires and seeks, he will be told "great things" that had until now been hidden.

the purpose of the biblical editors, in gathering together such diverse and often sharply conflicting texts, was not to construct a unitary work with an unequivocal message. It was rather to assemble a work capable of capturing and reflecting a given tradition of inquiry so readers could strive to understand the various perspectives embraced by this tradition, and in so doing build up an understanding of their own.

What is created is a space in which a certain discourse arises, and a search for truth that is, in effect, unending.61 The reader who takes up the Hebrew Bible is thus invited and challenged to take up a place within this tradition of inquiry, and to continue its elaboration out of his or her own resources.

The secret to wisdom is curiosity.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.