As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry,… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey Copy Share Image
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many… — Afshin Molavi Copy Share Image
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
Injection of environmental and political perspectives in midstream of the science discussion cannot help the process of inquiry. I believe that persons… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Obviously, if Christianity is going to survive as more than a respecter and comforter of profitable inquiries, then Christians, regardless of their… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire… — Edward Jenner Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson 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
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had… — Ruth Ozeki 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
Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines,… — Thomas Cooper Copy Share Image
How can a country be home to sectarian militias and yet also to people who are educated, sophisticated, and pluralistic? This is… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change.… — David Cooperrider Copy Share Image
The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
So long as knowledge goes beyond mere true belief, foreknowledge is implausible, since having and relying on relevant true beliefs is sufficient… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“A simple intuition, a single observation, can open vistas of unimagined potential. Once caught in the web of an idea, the researcher… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
