Quotes About Inquiry

Who's Mary Bopkins? asked Mrs. Jewls. Was she famous? Why? asked Miss Zarves. Does your class only study famous people? Do you think famous people are more important than people who aren't famous?

Is your last name your first name backward? Zero asked. Stanley stared at him in amazement. Had he been working on that all night?

Miss Nogard?

Si tiene edad para plantear la pregunta, tiene edad para escuchar la respuesta

Kate looked surprised, but said nothing and stood looking at the fire as if turning the matter over in her mind and trying to answer the question she was too polite to ask—how could they have a grandmother and know so little about her?

Aunt March received them with her usual hospitality. What do you want now? she asked

Pierpont "will probably not think of asking us.

He followed matters closely but never soiled his hands, so that he could profess ignorance of the whole matter.

I pressed him no further, and never found out where his father lived.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer. — Rhett

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

If the old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children then perhaps it was time to change it.

What is this, said the leopard,that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.

That the strength of Europe and of its culture, in contrast to other cultures, lies in its bent for criticism, above all, for self-criticism—in its art of analysis and inquiry, in its endless seeking, in its restlessness.

How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

De omnibus dubitandum est

For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.

Look, Grover Cleveland," one of them finally snapped at me after my third approach. "Harmoniums and water wings, diavolos and pungs we got, but Victorian easy chairs—nyet. And now, excuse me, will you? I have another nudnick here wants a round table like King Arthur's.

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.