Quotes about Inquiry

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Just do your duty in silence. 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 of spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.