There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or do anything, not to turn back, or stop… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry… — Gail Fine 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
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn 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
To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state… — Noam Chomsky 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
David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets… — Jacqueline Winspear 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
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
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce... — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer 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
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 pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living… — Ronald Reagan 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
