Quotes about Inquiry
Religious energy is in the dark questions, seldom in the answers.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
— Aristotle
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
— Henry David Thoreau
If we seek and keep on seeking, we will find; if we ask and keep on asking, we will receive; if we knock and keep on knocking, the door to truth will be opened. How can we refuse an offer like this?
— William Wilberforce
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
— Elie Wiesel
The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.
— Elie Wiesel
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
— Alice Walker
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
— Confucius
Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question. What do you think? How do you read it? he asks, again and again and again.
— Rob Bell
Science does an excellent job of telling me why I don't have a tail, but it can't explain why I find that interesting.
— Rob Bell