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."

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.

Aristotle

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

Alexander Hamilton

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

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.

Cleveland Abbe

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.

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,

Francis Bacon

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Arlen Specter

Everything I know about her is good, but there needs to be, obviously, a very thorough inquiry into her background.

This was a woman he had every right to make an inquiry of.

That is really what launched our inquiry into the marketplace.

Orrin Hatch

I'm not sure where this inquiry is going to take us, until we get all the documents,

John Prescott

It was a terrible tragedy that that young lad was killed but ... an independent inquiry is underway. Let us wait for the facts,

They are mostly sent on by private inquiry agencies. They are all people who are in trouble about something, and want a little enlightening. I listen to their story, they listen to my comments, and then I pocket my fee.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Joseph Glanvill

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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Morris Raphael Cohen

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

John Polkinghorne

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.

Marvin Minsky

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

Bob Rae

The fundamental objective of an inquiry has to be lessons learned. How did these things go wrong, are they still going wrong and how can we make sure they are fixed?

This is part of an ongoing inquiry that we disclosed in June of 2005.

Steven Levitt

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

Rupert Sheldrake

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