Quotes About Inquiry

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

Life consists of burning up questions.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

God, I don't know! Quit interrogating me, Peter.

Is your dad home? I'll ask him.

Margot} Doesn't see the point in wondering. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Three questions from my daughter: Why is there salt in the sea? Will you die before me? Do you know how many dogs George Washington had? Don't know. Yes. Please. 36.

Can I ask you something?' Will says and I say 'Sure, ask me something.' 'How do you know all this?' 'I'm a fucking librarian

I closed my eyes and listened to it. Who is this person? I wondered.

famously, Scots are very interested in their past, real or invented, but who else is?

Then the green man's face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquire in the sweetest, gentlest tones.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, "What if the world was round?

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.

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You prattle on when you should listen. You ask the questions as if the meaning of the question is obvious, rather than asking it in such a way that the person is removed past himself/herself to the place in which the answer resides. Are questions so obvious? I think not. Do not let yourself make them so.

Then she did what any girl would do: she Googled him.

The cruelty itself is motivated by something deeper: the wish to know the secret of things and of life.