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Inquiry Quotes by Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has…
- ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating…
- 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…
- The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in…
- Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.
More Inquiry Quotes
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they… — Cleveland Abbe
- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou
- Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. — Ambrose Bierce
- After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference… — Joseph Parker
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,… — Thomas Jefferson
- When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti