Quotes about Inquiry

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

It will become clear that there is no single scriptural idea, from Genesis to Revelation, more constantly and more prominently kept in view, than that expressed by the Words—"The Blood."

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

The essence of God is rather to be adored than inquired into.

To adore, or scorne an image, or protest, May all be bad; doubt wisely, in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleepe, or runne wrong, is: on a huge hill, Cragg'd, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenes resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.

Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.