Quotes About Inquiry

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

What is a canty day, Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh.

What is a 'canty day,' Dennis?" "I've never troubled to ask. Something like Hogmanay, I expect." "What is that?" "People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow." "Oh.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

Is your underwear purple, too?

Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior 'Hm!'.

Everywhere I go some silly girl asks me if I've read 'This Side of Paradise.

Where are you from? inquired Anthony. He knew, but beauty had rendered him thoughtless.

Hello—what hotel is this—?

Science is based on nothing other than what-ifs, and skepticism with regard to the preconceived notions that make up the material world.

Charles asked. "We did not!

Where's your tambourine, O bear that just stands there?

Do not make the infantile mistake of asking the meaning of things and words. Nothing has any meaning.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

In reply to an inquiry, it was explained that a satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity.

You know, Daddy said, it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

Jesus died to redeem you," she said. "I never ast him," he muttered.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions - that's behind my curiosity.

I want to study philosophy. That fascinates me.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

I hate feet, they're disgusting! What are they even for?

I don't even know what a feminist is.