Quotes about Inquiry

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Just do your duty in silence. When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles of spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.