Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their… — Levi Woodbury Copy Share Image
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights.… — Vera John-Steiner Copy Share Image
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue… — Adam Frank Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image
The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts;… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
In shows where the audience wants to try to understand the work, the work is placed in a space of possibility where… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined… — James Hillman Copy Share Image