"Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth." — C.S. Lewis

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• Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great… — Isaac Asimov
• True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as… — 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… — Joseph Parker
• Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage… — Thomas Jefferson
• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere 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… — Thomas Jefferson
• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne

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