Quotes about Inquiry

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 scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

There is a theory in organizational development called appreciative inquiry that I subscribe to as a leader and a parent. Instead of exclusively focusing on what's wrong and trying to fix it, you identify what's right and try to replicate it. Appreciative inquiry is playing to people's strengths. It's catching people doing things right. It's celebrating what you want to see more of. And it's bragging about people behind their backs.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of those branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

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.

Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

To be human is to write, to compose, to create, and to dream. So is to think, to test, and to know why.

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

use questions to raise questions

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.