Quotes about Inquiry

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Votes: 6

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. Votes: 4

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Votes: 4

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. Votes: 4

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. Votes: 4

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. Votes: 4

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry. Votes: 4

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind. Votes: 4

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. Votes: 4

Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth. Votes: 3

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil. Votes: 3

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time. Votes: 3

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other. Votes: 3

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity. Votes: 3

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. Votes: 3

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us. Votes: 3

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore. Votes: 3

The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace. Votes: 3

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states. Votes: 3

The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us. Votes: 3

I've never done too much inquiry into angels. Votes: 2

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. Votes: 2

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. Votes: 2

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. Votes: 2

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system. Votes: 2

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. Votes: 2

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. Votes: 2

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. Votes: 2

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. Votes: 2

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries. Votes: 2

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Votes: 2

Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. Votes: 2

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?' Votes: 2

Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it's just thoughtful inquiry. Votes: 2

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. Votes: 2

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. Votes: 2

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. Votes: 2

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. Votes: 2

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. Votes: 2

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Votes: 2

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. Votes: 2

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers. Votes: 2

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. Votes: 2

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith. Votes: 2

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry. Votes: 2

Certainty ends inquiry. Votes: 0

The thought: A logical inquiry Votes: 0

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. Votes: 0

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils. Votes: 0

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Votes: 0

The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven. Votes: 0

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth. Votes: 0

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. Votes: 0

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Votes: 0

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. Votes: 0

By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth. Votes: 0

Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. Votes: 0

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment. Votes: 0

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. Votes: 0

...any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves... Votes: 0

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. Votes: 0

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work. Votes: 0

Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce... Votes: 0

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? Votes: 0

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. Votes: 0

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. Votes: 0

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm. Votes: 0

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead. Votes: 0

Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are. Votes: 0

The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth. Votes: 0

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being. Votes: 0

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. Votes: 0

A quite specific astonishment stands at the beginning of every theological perception, inquiry, and thought. Votes: 0

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry. Votes: 0

As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible. Votes: 0

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. Votes: 0

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding. Votes: 0

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State. Votes: 0

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society? Votes: 0

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. Votes: 0

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. Votes: 0

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. Votes: 0

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something. Votes: 0

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility. Votes: 0

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. Votes: 0

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests. Votes: 0

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. Votes: 0

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy. Votes: 0

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry. Votes: 0

A kiss is an inquiry on the second floor as to what's going on on the first floor. Votes: 0

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. Votes: 0

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book. Votes: 0

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. Votes: 0

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. Votes: 0

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion Votes: 0

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered. Votes: 0

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry. Votes: 0

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge. Votes: 0

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. Votes: 0

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. Votes: 0

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. Votes: 0

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it. Votes: 0

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Votes: 0

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. Votes: 0

Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry. Votes: 0

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn't want to do that. Votes: 0

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. Votes: 0

The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. Votes: 0

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism. Votes: 0

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete. Votes: 0

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue. Votes: 0

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. Votes: 0

I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time. Votes: 0

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them... Votes: 0

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present. Votes: 0

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda. Votes: 0

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. Votes: 0

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry. Votes: 0

Assiduous and frequent questioning is indeed the first key to wisdom... for by doubting we come to inquiry; through inquiring we perceive the truth... Votes: 0

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

...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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. Votes: 0

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs. Votes: 0

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. Votes: 0

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom. Votes: 0

After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation. Votes: 0

"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument. Votes: 0

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. Votes: 0

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... Votes: 0

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer. Votes: 0

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry. Votes: 0

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged. Votes: 0

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. Votes: 0

Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth. Votes: 0

Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition. Votes: 0

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science -or any honest intellectual inquiry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to remember they weren't always separate realms of inquiry. Votes: 0

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims. Votes: 0

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets. Votes: 0

The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous. Votes: 0

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination. Votes: 0

The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons. Votes: 0

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it. Votes: 0

Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry. Votes: 0

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. Votes: 0

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation. Votes: 0

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." Votes: 0

Skepticism literally means a thoughtful inquiry, the looking at a problem in a disinterested spirit, the surveying of a question from many sides. In this sense it is the very essence of philosophy and science. Votes: 0

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry. Votes: 0

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well. Votes: 0

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are respected and privileged to be those who subordinate themselves to power. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge. Votes: 0

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other. Votes: 0