Famous Quotes & Sayings

Byron Katie

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

Byron Katie

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."

Edmund Husserl

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

Edward Sapir

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

Aristotle

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

Carl Sagan

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

Dennis Hastert

It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security,

Alexander Hamilton

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

Bobby Ray Inman

Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

Charles de Lint

Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Dale Mitchell

We know what kinds of products are being sold to homeowners in the state but we don't know how those products are being used. The household use survey will help provide some answers to the questions we've had about residential use of pesticide products.

William Scott

When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.

David Mitchell

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

David Lange

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

David Rakoff

Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me, it's not a question I feel really entitled to ask.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your planet.

Stephan Sirard

There are definitely answers only the cab driver can give us.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Bono

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Albert Einstein

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

David A. Bednar

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.

H. L. Mencken

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.

George F. Kennan

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.