Inquiry Quotes

332 quotes by 238 authors

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. — Aristotle
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. — Bruce Lee
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for… — H. L. Mencken
In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first… — Thomas Jefferson
Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth. — C.S. Lewis
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. — Ben Stein
We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isnâ€™t encouragedâ€”it is barely tolerated. — Warren Berger
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
What is true about (ex-Iraq Survey Group head) David Kay's evidence, and this is something I have to accept, and is one of the reasons… — Tony Blair
Certainty ends inquiry. — Jacob Bronowski
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every… — Thomas Jefferson
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom… — Donald Kennedy
No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more… — William Borah
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. — Margaret Fuller
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;… — Samuel Johnson
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments… — Charles Babbage
I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had… — Toni Morrison
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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