#inquiry

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers, above all.

I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.

Let us follow the argument wherever, like a wind, it may lead us.

An unconsidered opinion is like an untamed beast; only through rigorous cross-examination does it yield true understanding.

We shall be better and braver and less helpless if we believe that one must search for what one does not know, than if we believe it impossible to find.

Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.

All men by nature desire to know.

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

A philosopher is just a man who thinks in an unusually obstinate way.

A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those kinds of truth were really there, would be an irrational rule.

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

The moment you have a conclusion, you cease to inquire.

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

The mind that questions everything is the only mind that truly learns.

Do not seek answers; understand the question deeply.

Mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego.

Who is it that suffers? Inquire, and suffering dissolves.

Do not fight thoughts; simply ask who is thinking them.

The ego is like a ghost; examine it closely and it disappears.

The true seeker inquires into the nature of the seeker.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is the sacred key to the portal of genuine knowledge; he who doubts nothing examines nothing.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Truth is a pathless land.

The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.