Quotes about Inquiry

although we often succeed in teaching our pupils subjects, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.

Of course, [Miss Climpson,] you mustn't appear to be inquiring. You must find some good gossipy lady living in the neighborhood and just get her to talk in a natural way. You must pretend to be gossipy yourself — it's not in your nature, I know, but I'm sure you can make a little pretence about it — and find out all you can.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.

All men desire by nature to know.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.