Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of… — Bruno Schulz 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
To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace.… — Adyashanti 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
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan 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
“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made… — John Owen 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
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
For a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large… — David Willetts Copy Share Image
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
Our mind is a machine, it is not a mystery. And the mind always wants to know the how, the why. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that… — David O. Russell 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
I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our… — William Stanley Jevons 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
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
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