Inquiries Quotes

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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines… — Hannes Alfven
Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries. — Alexander Hamilton
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. — Philip K. Dick
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to… — V.S. Naipaul
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we… — Plato
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own… — Alistair Cooke
The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time. — Bill Richardson
Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling… — Sarada Devi
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson
In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen… — Eric Newby
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is… — Immanuel Kant
Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite… — Cleta Mitchell
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar — Samuel Johnson
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in… — Aristotle
Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating… — Richard Owen

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