Quotes about Inquiry

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

All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said? Is it true? What of it?

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

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

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”

They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

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

Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.

Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.

And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”