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Inquiry, Meaning, Understanding, Thought, Interpretation

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"What does that quote mean to you? Can you explain the concept behind it and not just repeat the pretty phrase to me?"

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"It isn't what you don't know that's the problem. It is what you're unwilling to ask."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

Inquiry, Question, Truth, Curiosity, Ego

"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Inquiry, Philosophy, Wonder, Knowledge, Curiosity

"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Inquiry, Curiosity, Life, Observation, Wisdom

"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Inquiry, Question, Faith, Truth, Wisdom

"Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?"

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

Inquiry, Paradox, Knowledge, Curiosity

"A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!"

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Inquiry, Curiosity, Authority, Knowledge

"You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell the question was. "Ahh, how to be happy?"

Darrell Calkins, American Author

Inquiry, Question, Happiness, Uncertainty

"If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Inquiry, Curiosity, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington."

Dalai Lama XIV, Tibetan Spiritual Leader

Inquiry, Science, Faith, Reality

"We may differ on many things, but what we respect is freeinquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement betweenProfessor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins,concerning "punctuated evolution and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shallresolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Inquiry, Science, Debate, Evidence

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"Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure."

Adventure

"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

Imagination

"I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit."

Emotion

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

Imagination

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

Experience

"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."

Compassion

"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."

Philosophy

"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."

Attitude

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

Experience

"What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?"

Conflict