Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“Inquiry doesn’t have a motive. It doesn’t teach a philosophy. It’s just investigation.” — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. — William Penn 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
...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse;… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry.… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly,… — Bobby Ray Inman Copy Share Image
Rather than be afraid of evolution and try to stifle inquiry, people should revel in the joys of knowing and find a… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states - “fear societies” and “free societies.”… The two societies make up… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage … One of the most remarkable features of this damage… — Arjun Makhijani Copy Share Image
“In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy 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
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
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. — Ayad Akhtar 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
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear… — Benjamin Rush 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
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
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