Inquiry Quotes
332 quotes by 238 authors
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We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor…
— Jack Cade
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Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and…
— Roy Romer
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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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Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
— Umberto Eco
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I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or…
— Ed McCabe
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There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the…
— Arjun Makhijani
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You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is…
— Rajneesh
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SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will…
— Joshua Reynolds
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A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading…
— Unknown Author
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
— Plato
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To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has…
— Vimala Thakar
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A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive…
— Noam Chomsky
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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…
— Unknown Author
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The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter,…
— John Foxe
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Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing…
— Leslie Jamison
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Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight,…
— Deepak Chopra
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By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.
— Peter Abelard
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Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to…
— Peter Senge
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