Quotes about Inquiry
All men desire by nature to know.
- Aristotle
When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.
- Cicero
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
- Herman Melville
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
- John Ortberg
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
- Cicero
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
- Marty Rubin
[Science is] the desire to know causes.
- William Hazlitt
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.
- Madeleine L'Engle
oh my soul...be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions
- William Paul Young