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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
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.
As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.
In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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.
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.
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.
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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."
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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.
If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.
The words "question" and "quest" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth.
Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.
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.
Any honest inquiry into the reality of nature also yields insights about ourselves.
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
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.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Even if we don't have any knowledge in this life, we have and tend to rely on relevant true beliefs; and that's sufficient for inquiry.
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
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.
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.
The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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.
I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.
Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.
The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
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.
