Inquiring Quotes
57 quotes by 53 authors
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain…
— Rajneesh
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Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been…
— Aristotle
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The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
— Thomas Carlyle
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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is…
— Bruce Lee
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But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men…
— Thomas Paine
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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
— John Donne
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A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic…
— Nelson Mandela
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The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied…
— Edward Gibbon
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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
— Aldous Huxley
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It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found…
— W G Sebald
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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property…
— Clarence Darrow
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Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.
— Chauncey Guy Suits
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... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived…
— John Gibson Paton
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Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has…
— Isocrates
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The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life…
— Newton D. Baker
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