Quotes with inquiry

  • Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
  • The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
  • Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
  • If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. F. Skinner The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Richard Whately 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?''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Hosea Ballou Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Abdul Kalam Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Aristotle 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
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton 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.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Will Durant Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Will Durant Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Thomas Paine It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Benjamin Rush Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
    Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush[1]
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • William Blake The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Winwood Reade The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Carl Sagan The words question and quest are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
    Brocas Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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