Enquiry Quotes

51 quotes by 45 authors

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or… — Saint Basil
We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else. — Douglas Harding
The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme. — Howard Carter
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and… — Thomas Jefferson
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries… — Fritjof Capra
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at… — Gerd Sommerhoff
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our… — Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]… — Thomas Jefferson
If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected?… — Alexander Hamilton
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. — Bridget Riley
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley
Truth never lost ground by enquiry. — William Penn
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be,… — Parmenides
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories,… — Norman Potter
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined… — David Hume
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock

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