Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry… — Herbert Turnbull Copy Share Image
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without… — Paul Kurtz 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
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
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution,… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a… — Karl Popper 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
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
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“4. Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this object. In the first place, divest yourself of all bias in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins Copy Share Image
The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or… — Sathya Sai Baba 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
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
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
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
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
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
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
