Inquiry Quotes

332 Inquiry quotes by 238 unique authors

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.… — George Orwell
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry… — C.S. Lewis
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as… — Douglas Adams
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own… — Paulo Freire
I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of… — Barack Obama
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,… — George Eliot
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says… — Umberto Eco
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is… — Nhat Hanh
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do… — Robert Green Ingersoll
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety,… — A.C. Grayling
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary… — Christopher Hitchens
In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. — Carl Sagan
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Sister," he murmured, not as an inquiry, but a statement of fact. "Brother mine," she groaned... before her consciousness slipped from her grasp and she… — J R Ward
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it -… — Gregory Maguire
If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your… — Byron Katie
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important.… — Louisa May Alcott
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… — Christopher Hitchens
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense… — Tamora Pierce

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