Quotes About Inquiry

Don't ask things that don't concern you. After all, everybody has their own reasons.

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.

The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.

The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress. With

It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.

Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.

Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot questions.

Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission of inquiry, and promise ourselves that next time we'll do better.

the worst thing said about him is that he was "uncurious.

Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface.

You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

Parc? era vorba s? nu-?i mai pui întreb?ri, b?iatule cu p?rul ciufulit? — N-a? fi om, dac? nu mi-a? pune întreb?ri...

The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

It's not so hard to figure out why I'm not sleeping. What I can't figure out is why everybody else is sleeping.

Here are some other examples of digging deeper into a conversation: You ask, How have you been? and get the reply, Busy. Follow-up responses could include: How do you deal with being busy? What is going on that's got you so busy? Describe a busy day for you. Do you like being busy? Does there seem to be a cycle of busy-ness during your year? Do you remember a time in your life when you weren't as busy?

Something else to ask her landlord about… or maybe

Certainty is the place where questions go to die.

Don't preach. Don't teach. Don't judge. Take a loved child by the hand and explore something fascinating together.

El origen de los conocimientos no está en los hechos, sino en la curiosidad.

O'Brien asked everything, from soft questions such as the correct spelling of his name (Al didn't know if i or e was the correct ending and said he preferred "Capone") to hard ones such as if he really gave a banquet for Albert Anselmi and John Scalise before he beat them to death with a baseball bat.

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.