Inquiry Quotes
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."
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 not know—the Church does neither.
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
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.
The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.
If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.
... 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 in which no man gets at truth.
Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or multiple choice?
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
It may be old hat, but I see no reason to close off what is for me a fruitful subject of inquiry, especially so for one, like me, who is very much interested in creating stories and novels of ideas.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
