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
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
“Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. — Confucius Copy Share Image
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
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust,… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
In every principle presented to us, our first inquiry should be, "Is it true?" "Does it emanate from God?" If he is… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols. Our language and… — Alan Briskin 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
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
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
Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the… — Jacob Needleman 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
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
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. — Ben Stein 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
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
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to… — Plato Copy Share Image
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
![“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth… [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a4/thomas-jefferson-43_coercion_what-has-been-the-effect-of-coercion-to_238945.jpg)
