Quotes about Inquiry
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
— Myles Munroe
All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said? Is it true? What of it?
— Os Guinness
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
— Margaret Atwood
My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’
— Genesis 44:19
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
— William James
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
— Ezra 5:9
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.”
— Judges 20:23
An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
— Peter Kreeft
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
— Ben Stein
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.
— Rob Bell
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
— Ecclesiastes 12:9
A major part of our inquiry, then, must be to look at the emerging Christian movement and to ask: what caused it? Even if our eyewitnesses disagree in detail, something must have happened.
— NT Wright