Quotes About Inquiry

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

With knowledge grows doubt.

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

It's not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)

Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.