Inquiry Quotes

332 Inquiry quotes by 238 unique authors

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors… — Thomas Jefferson
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself. — Caroline Myss
Potluck Supper with Meeting to FollowÂ is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund… — Joe Meno
The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond… — B.K.S. Iyengar
For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers… — Henry David Thoreau
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor… — Learned Hand
David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for… — Jacqueline Winspear
I have long been an ardent believer in the science of Homeopathy and I feel happy that it has got now a greater hold in… — Rabindranath Tagore
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into… — Plutarch
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense… — Thomas Huxley
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… — Frederick William Robertson
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers. — Susanne Katherina Langer
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are… — Leigh Hunt
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no… — Walter Savage Landor
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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