Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. — John Herschel Copy Share Image
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and… — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard 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
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
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
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
A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...… — Thomas Jefferson 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
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful… — James Payn Copy Share Image
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession… Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image