Quotes about Inquiry

they will learn how much better it is, when one is uninformed, to put questions than to make assertions;

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

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

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

If a condition could be conceived in which all the preaching of the Church should be controlled by the liberalism which in many quarters has already become preponderant, then, we believe, Christianity would at last have perished from the earth and the gospel would have sounded forth for the last time. If so, it follows that the inquiry with which we are now concerned is immeasurably the most important of all those with which the Church has to deal.

The highest compliment you can give someone is to ask them their opinion.

The unexamined life is not worth leading." I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.