Quotes About Inquiry

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

You see something you like?" - Rose Hathaway

What the hell have you done to her?

That was how I knew Sister Mukumbu was a real teacher, aside from her welcoming smile and her blackboard penmanship. She asked a teacher's type of question. The kind that says: Join in.

Believing, with Locke, that all our knowledge comes ultimately from the senses, and is thus empirical, not metaphysical, in origin, the philosophes do not profess to know what lies behind empirical phenomena.151 They do not inquire into the ultimate nature of things.

The Mom Test: Talk about their life instead of your idea Ask about specifics in the past instead of generics or opinions about the future Talk less and listen more

How are you feeling, Jack?" Barbossa asked solicitously. "Ill? Slightly unwell? Horribly unwell? Close to death? How close to death?

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

correcting errors is a waste of time if the one you are correcting attributes his own beliefs to principled, unprejudiced inquiry, while attributing the beliefs of those who disagree with him to bias and ulterior motives.

Well, well—be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.

When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.

Mat sacudió con asombro la cabeza. «¿Cuánta gente hay en los tejados esta noche?» Sólo faltaba que se presentara Thom y se pusiera a tocar el arpa, o alguien preguntando las señas de una posada.

popped into his head then, one he did not want to ask, one

Estúpidos cretinos! —espetó la Zahorí, que vibraba de pies a cabeza, con ojos destellantes y mejillas coloreadas—. ¿Por qué razón, en nombre de la Luz, os habéis escapado corriendo?