The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind. — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've… — Hsu Yun Copy Share Image
“So, how can you move beyond awkward silence with virtual strangers to becoming new friends? By asking great questions! Once a few… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I'll tell you that when an innocent person is killed, we never go about asking or inquiring whether they were Jewish or… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical)… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or… — Marie Dressler Copy Share Image
It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose… — Jerry Thomas Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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