Quotes about Inquiry

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook?

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

It will become clear that there is no single scriptural idea, from Genesis to Revelation, more constantly and more prominently kept in view, than that expressed by the Words—"The Blood."

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.