What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The world still awaits a proper inquiry into climategate: one that is not stacked with global warming advocates and one that is… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads… — Joseph Mazzini Wheeler Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many… — Afshin Molavi Copy Share Image
I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination.… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
I have great concern, but my concern is probably not what most people would think it would be.My concern is why is… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry…… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to… — Joyce DiDonato Copy Share Image
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
