Inquiry Quotes

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

Ethical inquiry has always been motivated by the aim of improving human conduct. It doesn't follow from that that the goal is to produce a complete rule book that would be applicable to all cases.

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

In truth you cannot understand the nature of My Reality, either today, or even after a thousand years of steady austerity or ardent inquiry, even if all mankind joins in that effort.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

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 --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

A good education must expose knowledge gaps and increase the hunger for further inquiries.A good education is not complete.

Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go.

Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.

I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!

In changing times, question everything you take for granted.

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.

But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

...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?

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…

Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.