Quotes About Inquiry

Le domande più interessanti rimangono domande. Avvolgono un mistero. A ogni risposta, si deve associare un forse. Sono solo le domande senza interesse ad avere una risposta definitiva.

Dieu n'est présent en moi que sous la forme de sa question.

My task is teach my students how to ask the right questions.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. —Naguib Mahfouz

Two essential behaviors that signal an invitation is genuine are adopting a mindset of situational humility and engaging in proactive inquiry. Designing structures for input, another powerful tool I discuss in this section, also serves as an invitation for voice.

but Mackey and Kell had asked Stevie straight out if any of his male relatives had the last name Jefferson, and he couldn't think of one.

What the hell is that?" The drill sergeant almost mumbled to himself. "I've never seen that piece of metal before in my life….

Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

Gelehrte sind Menschen, die sich von normalen Sterblichen durch die anerworbene Fähigkeit unterscheiden, sich an weitschweifigen und komplizierten Irrtümern zu ergötzen.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Great doubts, deep wisdom; Small doubts, little wisdom -

You can't ask my father anything directly. So I file it away with all the other things I don't know about my parents - permanently missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is me.

Eine gute Frage ist oft schon die halbe Antwort. Viele Probleme entstehen nicht aus fehlenden Antworten, sondern aus ungenauen Fragen.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity.

Don't Gather Requirements—Dig for Them

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied.