Quotes About Inquiry

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad. Why are they Sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad.

So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE'S everyday life.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

I've been Catholic all my life, and there's one thing I've never understood. Why didn't the Corinthians write back?

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

All I know is that I do not know anything

When asked a question, class, it's important to consider how it's framed. Sometimes a question is a door to another question, another way of seeing. Understanding.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

Avram was shocked. "Well, how is the sand feeling?" he asked after a moment. "Crowded.

Insightful questions build credibility and deepen relationships.