Quotes About Inquiry

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Without questions, there is no learning.

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should!

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.