John of Salisbury Quotes

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

In order to find, you must first search.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Only those who seek shall find.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Science is always inquiring.