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Inquiries Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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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… — Thomas Jefferson
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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… — Hannes Alfven
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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,… — Plato
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson
- 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