If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Melania Trump has not said what kind of visa she had, and her husband's campaign did not respond to NPR's inquiries before… — Hansi Lo Wang Copy Share Image
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit… — John of Salisbury Copy Share Image
By the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visable World… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom.… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
You have to be again innocent, ignorant, not knowing anything, so that the questions can start arising again. Again the inquiry becomes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him… — Anandamayi Ma 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
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science. If… — Norman Dorsen Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry… — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion. — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that. — Robert Urich Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
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