Quotes About Inquiry

Directly a man begins to say Yes without the question Why? he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar.

Siempre nos queda el derecho de querer saber.

Nadie recuerda los por qués

Sometimes people simply did not want to find things out. Nobody was missing, nobody was cheating on their wives, nobody was embezzling. At such times, a private detective may as well hand a closed sign on the office door and go plant melons.

Life isn't about finding the answers, life is about knowing there are always more questions.

When our small research group moved from MIT to Dartmouth College years ago, one of the Dartmouth engineering professors watched us in seminars for a while, and then dropped by our offices. "You people are different," he said. "You ask different kinds of questions. You see things I don't see. Somehow you come at the world in a different way. How? Why?

She taught us to ask. Never be afeared to look dumb. 'Cause looking dumb don't matter. Being dumb, that matter. So just ask. And if you don't get a straight answer, then go seeking. No matter what it is. Just go seeking.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

actually, I came here because of Skipper." "That was awfully nice! How's he doing? I'm going

Do you know how to pick a lock?' 'Not in the least, I'm afraid.' 'I often wonder what we go to school for,' said Wimsey.

If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.

You must think it strange that I'm digging up my grandfather." "Not at all. I'm sure many young men dig up their grandfathers.

Humans are strongly discouraged fro comparing their lives with those of other animals. Yet everything I had experienced taught me that metaphor is the fundamental path of imagining, a first line of inquiry into the lives of other creatures that sheds light on our own.

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

And as you've already seen," added the AI, "I can't even answer all of your questions about the how of it, as you put it.

Douglas E. Richards

Would extraordinarily advanced alien beings really traverse this unimaginable gulf just to blast patterns in our cornfields, mutilate our cows, and probe our anuses? Surely they'd have better things to do.

What do want with us?

Who are you?" he whispered.

woman do you take me for?

Paradoxically, there is also considerable persuasion power in inquiry and listening.

get curious about what you don't know about yourself.

Instead of being overwhelmed by the apparent uncertainty in such a problem, start to ask what things about it you do know.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.