Quotes About Inquiry

Children ask questions piecemeal because they take their time to make sense of the information they receive. They know what they can manage and stop asking when they had enough. It is a good

Josephine Tey's novel, The Daughter of Time (1951)

only one man could have been responsible for their deaths: Richard III.

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Why do I do this?

Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Noi non giudichiamo. Le cose strane sono il nostro mestiere.

Wait a second," Han said. "What are those things?" She shook her head. "Life-forms." "Thanks, Doc," he said.

Do you always ask so many questions?" "My guidance counselor says it's the sign of an intellectually curious mind.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.

When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

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

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.