No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and… — Max Black Copy Share Image
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society? — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it's a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the… — Donald Kennedy Copy Share Image
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
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
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We… — Albert Einstein 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
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry. — Parmenides Copy Share Image
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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