You want to be loved because you do not love; but the moment you love, it is finished, you are no longer inquiring whether or not somebody loves you.
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.
I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his eyes glinting. "It's time for them to meet the Ask.
[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value
What are you doing here snooping around, Tory? (Medea) I didn’t think I was snooping. It didn’t feel like a snoop. I have snooped before and can honestly say this isn’t it. (Tory)
Asking is the beginning of receiving.
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of what is religion and not merely accept the established religions, churches, and rituals.
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork.
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.
It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting the other person down, that's different than if you're inquiring about the process they go through to make a decision on behalf of the public.
A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.
I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.
The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
How now, wit! Whither wander you?
And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.
