Inquiry Quotes

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

— Misha Collins

The thought: A logical inquiry

— Gottlob Frege

Begin and you're halfway there.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

“Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.”

— Yogananda Paramhansa

Certainty ends inquiry.

— Jacob Bronowski

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

— Anonymous

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

— Jean Toomer

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

— Samuel Johnson

Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

— Andre Tchaikowsky

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

— Noam Chomsky

“Inquiry doesn’t have a motive. It doesn’t teach a philosophy. It’s just investigation.”

— Byron Katie

“Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?”

— Geoffrey Hill

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

— Heraclitus

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

— Lev Artsimovich

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

— Ptolemy

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

— Byron Katie

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and…

— Roy Romer

“Building the inquiry community with students will take time. An inquiry community is made up of students with an inquiry mind set.”

— Carol C. Kuhlthau

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

— Anonymous

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

— Isaac Asimov

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

— John Herschel

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

— Nicholas Stern

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

— Hudson Maxim

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here…

— Byron Katie

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...…

— Thomas Jefferson

A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would…

— Noam Chomsky

The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace.…

— Adyashanti

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or…

— H. L. Mencken

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen…

— E. L. Doctorow

So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of…

— Bruno Schulz

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you…

— C. S. Lewis

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful…

— James Payn

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a…

— Rabindranath Tagore

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion…

— Thomas Jefferson

Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is…

— Rajneesh

The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made…

— John Owen

You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding…

— Rajneesh