Inquiry Quotes

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By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

The thought: A logical inquiry

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.