Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute,… — William Borah 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
“...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State. — Lev Artsimovich Copy Share Image
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