Quotes about Inquiry
Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
- John Milton
Asking questions is the key to understanding.
- John Piper
Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.
- John Piper
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- Carl Sagan
Human beings have a voracious appetite for trying to figure things out in order to gain a sense of mastery over their lives.
- Sarah Young
People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?
- Barack Obama
The governor had made up his mind to one thing: Joan was either a witch or a saint, and he meant to find out which it was.
- Mark Twain
What's the name of the first point above New Orleans?' I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
- Mark Twain
Are you well up in your Jean Paul?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions.
- Stephen Hawking
As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.
- Stephen Hawking
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
- Confucius