Inquiry Quotes - Page 5

Inviting people to inquiry is much more powerful to me than describing my experience... When people hear me tell the story, they often say, "Oh my goodness, I get it. I get it!" But it's not enough.

for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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."

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

In doubting we come to inquiry; by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

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

A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor.

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.

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

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

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.

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.

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.

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

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