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- Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
- Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
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- 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
- When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. — Confucius
- It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. — Thomas Carlyle
- We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and… — Thomas Jefferson
- Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne