Quotes about Inquiry

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

If the church didn't place true value on a person's questioning, then we were effectively absolving ourselves of any responsibility to that person.

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

Words! book-words! what are you?

Explanation sets the need for further inquiry aside; narrative invites us to rethink what we thought we knew.

although we often succeed in teaching our pupils subjects, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.

Of course, [Miss Climpson,] you mustn't appear to be inquiring. You must find some good gossipy lady living in the neighborhood and just get her to talk in a natural way. You must pretend to be gossipy yourself — it's not in your nature, I know, but I'm sure you can make a little pretence about it — and find out all you can.

My fingers are always in every single pie.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought.