We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor… — Jack Cade 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
It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
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
Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
“Many of the innovations in science and philosophy have come from unbelievers, some of whom died for their 'unbeliefs.' Without unbelief, we… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
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
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
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
History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence. In the writing of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous 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
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
