Inquiry Quotes

332 Inquiry quotes by 238 unique authors

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
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
They wouldnâ€™t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in,… — Douglas Adams
Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the inquiries which are… — Neale Donald Walsch
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised… — Rob Bell

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