Here are some quotes related to inquiry along with the authors’ names:

“Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.” – John Paul Caponigro

“The words ‘question’ and ‘quest’ are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.” – Carl Sagan

“Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.” – John Locke

“Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.” – Hudson Maxim

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.” – Hosea Ballou

“Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.” – Thomas Jefferson

“What’s in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.” – John Dewey

“With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes alive, and with the inquiry becoming alive you cannot vegetate. Then life becomes an exploration, an adventure.” – Rajneesh

“The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.” – Alistair Cooke

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.” – Benjamin Jowett

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.” – Thomas Paine

“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” – Isaac Newton

“There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.” – J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.” – Martin Chalfie

“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.” – Aristotle

“Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.” – Benjamin Jowett

“The most all-penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.” – Dmitri Mendeleev

“Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.” – Jon Meacham

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.” – Isaac Asimov

“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.” – Richard Dawkins

“Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.” – Seth Shostak

“The fundamental essence of science, which I think we’ve lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens.” – Seth Shostak