Enquiry Quotes

51 Enquiry quotes by 45 unique authors

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal. — Adi Shankara
The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal… — Lady Jane Grey
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical,… — A.J. Ayer
I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries… — Democritus
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our… — George Santayana
It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we… — Carl Jung
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which… — John Herschel
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe… — Percy Williams Bridgman
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per… — Hermann Bondi
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety,… — Jacques Monod
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… — Francis Bacon
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry. — Max Planck
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality,… — Frances Wright
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski
Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’… — Patrick O'Brian
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation… — Dylan Thomas
How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and… — Jane Austen
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives? — Tom Holt
His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in… — Georgette Heyer
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better… — Michael Faraday
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in… — Michael Sandel
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that. — Noam Chomsky
After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in… — John Biddle
The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to… — Parmedides

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