Inquiries Quotes
43 quotes by 38 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
— Philip K. Dick
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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