Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne Copy Share Image
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
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
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
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
“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
A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
“We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences.… — Suzy Kassem 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
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
Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you… — Isocrates 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
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they… — David Puttnam 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 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
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 best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my… — Emily Bronte 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
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points… — Edward Hodnett Copy Share Image
It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune. — Jean de la Bruyere 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
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