Top 196 Inquire Quotes & Sayings

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

When you inquire 'Who am I?' if you are honest, you'll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn't have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.

Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life

It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

If you wish to marry well, inquire well.

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.

If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

We cannot have a society half slave and half free; nor can we have thought half slave and half free. If we create an atmosphere in which men fear to think independently, inquire fearlessly, express themselves freely, we will in the end create the kind of society in which men no longer care to think independently or to inquire fearlessly.

When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.

?"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that men have come to the sources of the Nile and have observed the rains there.

If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.

Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.

But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

In my view, the government has ample justification to inquire about citizenship status on the census and could plainly provide rationales for doing so that would satisfy the Supreme Court.