Inquiring Quotes

57 quotes by 53 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. — John Donne
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
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
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
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
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
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
Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind. — Chauncey Guy Suits
... 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
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
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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