The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair; disposing of it by means of another question is not.
Scientific reasoning is a dialogue between the possible and the actual, between proposal and disposal between what might be true, and what is in fact the case.
...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
