Quotes about Inquiry

So we keep asking, over and over Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths- But is that an answer?

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

By doubting we come at truth.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.