Inquiry Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inquiry Religion Religious Suspended
At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in… — Hemant Mehta Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly. — Hozier Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Stop looking all over the place for "the answers" - whatever they are - and start looking for the questions - the inquiries which… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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