Quotes About Inquiry

Actually our ignorance and carelessness are more deliberate than accidental; we are entering Glen Canyon without having learned much about it beforehand because we wish to see it as Powell and his party had seen it, not knowing what to expect, making anew the discoveries of others. If the first rapids are a surprise to us it is simply because we had never inquired if there were any on this stretch of the river.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

refuse to accept assertions blindly. Challenge everything and everyone—including your teachers. Don't be intimidated. You are the best authority on what you don't understand—trust yourself: don't be afraid to ask the questions you need to ask, and be brave enough to change your thinking when you uncover a blind spot.

Search for evidence and don't be satisfied until you know the why.

Enquiring minds want to know.

Ask the man who owns one.

Is Saul also among the prophets?

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

Doubtful disputations.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Aloysius, you mad or sane today?

all I feel sure of are questions.

Did dreams, he wondered, when they arrived, make a sound? The smallest kind, like the noise of an embryo being conceived, or a snowflake touching down?

To know her is to realize the thousand forms of inquiry.

It is not so fun being asked how tall you are all the time.

La lógica, la razón y la ciencia pura son las tres vías apropiadas, insiste Aronnax, para aproximarse al misterio.

He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this—that he knows nothing yet.' "]·

What," he asked into the silence, "is her name?

Euphrosyne leant forward, clasping her hands, and said to me: 'Have you killed him?' The question vexed me. It would have been civil to accompany it, at all events, with an inquiry as to my own health.

I had received an answer to the question that Holmes had put to me. Now all I needed to know was why I had asked it.

Stop right there,' I said. 'If we're going to have rules, the main rule is that you never ask me about my private life: not my books, not my TV, not my family, not my friends.' 'I'm interested you put them in that order...

There was something quite animalistic about Hawthorne. The closer he got to the truth, the more you could see it in his eyes, in the way he sat, in the very contours of his skin.

Is that why you asked if Weston was married? You think he's gay too?' 'It wouldn't surprise me. That sort look after their own.

she's trying another tack. 'Do you really believe