Quotes about Inquiry

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

For the same things are not 'knowable relatively to us' and 'knowable' without qualification. So in the present inquiry we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, (20) but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature.

those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.

Every art and every inquiry, and likewise every action and choice, seems to aim at some good, and hence it has been beautifully said that the good is that at which all things aim.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?