Quotes About Inquiry

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Art isn't the answer. It's another way of asking the question.

She couldn't put into words how desparately she wanted to know what had happened to Sarah. But she'd suddenly realized that Sarah was not the only one who had lost her memory of what happened when she was a little girl. Hundreds of thousands of people had lost their memories of what had happened to them ...

An Englishman asks you what you know. An American asks you what's in your wallet. An Indian asks you what's your family history.

Thaddeus Osbert sat in the middle of my office, scrunched over so he could fit. He looked me right in the eye and said, "So, I understand you believe in dragons." I nodded. He sat back and studied me for a minute or two, before uttering, "Yes, you'll do.

Who, me?" Gary said, grinning.

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

What did you do?" Scapegrace asked. A series of expressions flitted across Clarabelle's face. First, there was indignation, then there was resignation, followed by hope, chased by confusion, and finally knocked down and sat upon by innocence. "Nothing.

Stephanie, what are you doing here? – Gordon (in the Echo Stone)

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.