I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid… — William Farr Copy Share Image
I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a… — Ed McCabe Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might,… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society? — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
