Quotes About Inquiry

In order to determine whether we can know anything with certainty, we first have to doubt everything we know

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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Then it moved. A kick. Then another. The king woke up with a start. 'Come here quickly. Feel this,' he called the ghosts. They saw the excitement in the king's eyes. They

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?" And he says, How much time do you want?

To our young selves, though, there is no difference between the small questions and the big ones. We follow our curiosity to the edge of our understanding and then ask whoever is around what lies beyond it. I have spent my adult life fighting to keep what I possessed as a child: the ability to see the biggest questions sitting inside the smallest ones and the willingness to try to answer them.

Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn't he have a life? Didn't he have anything better to do?

You wouldn't understand.' Mustard's eyes narrowed. 'We won't know until you try. Just last night, headmaster body was telling me I should learn more about how this school works from star students like you. You remember the headmaster, right? Nice guy, bloods all over the floor upstairs?

Not everything that matters can be quantified. What is tested may ultimately be less important than what is untested, such as a student's ability to seek alternative explanations, to raise questions, to pursue knowledge on his own, and to think differently. If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent that has contributed powerfully to the success of our society in many different fields of endeavor.

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

one should never assume anything

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

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One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.

You have any questions, come to me, but don't have any questions. Are there any questions?

Science is not a theory of reality, but a method of inquiry.

I Googled it all." Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else's business.

I believe in doubt. I believe in keeping clear of believers.

Then why were you

Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.

All life long, the same questions, the same answers.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.