Quotes About Inquiry

to be found?' 'You're suggesting

not say and Max had known better than to ask.

Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.

For every question, there is a book.

Credulity is not a virtue, and investigation is not a crime.

Principle underlying all of the solutions = question we ask

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

Is there a Mrs. Garret?" Charley asked. "They're all three dead," said Phillip. "Dead and buried and gone to hell, likely." "Why do you say that?" Charley asked. "They must have all been terrible sinners to have married our father," said Keenan.

He said to them, "Come and see . . ." – John 1:39

him there?" asked Jess.

Peter came to understand that the roots of Western technological achievement lay in the freeing of men's minds. He grasped that it had been the Renaissance and the Reformation, neither of which had ever come to Russia, which had broken the bonds of the medieval church and created an environment where independent philosophical and scientific inquiry as well as wide-ranging commercial enterprise could flourish.

A student incquired at his college bookstore about a book whose author's name he could not remember, but whose queer title was, to the best of his recollection, "A World Full of Lobsters.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

Sir William Curzon Wyllie?

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask." —Sam Keen

Your brain loves questions and won't reject them . . . unless the question is so big it triggers fear.

Creativity isn't learning the right answers but asking the strongest questions.

Twain broke with the tradition of asking "Who Am I?" and its species-wide variant "Who Is Man?" on the grounds that a "who-question" is a leading question. It predisposes us to expect the answer to be a sentient being, not unlike ourselves, "whom" we're trying to characterize.

As I have reminded you time and time again, playing detective is dangerous and not for amateurs, and you are exactly that: a goddamn amateur when it comes to homicide investigation.

Because he's not here. Does that answer your question?

But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.

He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't is a fool for a lifetime