Quotes About Inquiry

Please, detective, you were saying.

key question that remained unanswered. Who was

There was and always had been a drive within me to know the truth of things.

Is that Nutella and bacon?

Question everything. Attempt the impossible. Be brave.

we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

there would be no way for anyone to get caught in the act of wondering

No one had told her what "birth" meant.

Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, Might we be human? But Fastidious did not reply.

Where Is Mrs. Hirsch?

Is there something wrong with your shoes?" he asked

What is in here?" he asked loudly.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

If you don't understand something, you should just try to learn more, that's all.

Why are you wearing slippers?" She stared down at her feet. "I'm—sorry, Pilot Officer Mayhew. That's classified.

The thought balloon of my own breath said, How have I found myself here?

it seemed one could just say are you serious? for the rest of existence and it would never be unjustified and would always have to be answered and so would keep the conversation going

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

done him in! Yuh deny it? Deny it? Lance stared at the man, his eyes watchful. Why, I never heard of Joe Wilkins

It is through wonder that we come to know.

I've learned a little, but I know there is so much more. My father always said that was the wonderful thing about learning, that there was no end to it.

confused begging of some philosophical question

For Peirce, inquiry is always communal—it is the median of many observations that gives the position of the star—and the last analysis really is the last. In Peirce's cosmology, everyone's beliefs have to be the same in the end, because all opinion must converge.