Quotes about Inquiry

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Man is incurably curious.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.