Top 415 Investigate Quotes & Sayings

At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000.

Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate.

You know, there were all kinds of calls when George W. Bush left office in 2009 for the left to investigate him. [Barack] Obama and Eric Holder were under pressure to investigate and prosecute Bush. I bet most people don't remember this, but it wasn't until June 30th, 2011, that Eric Holder announced that of the more than 100 cases the Justice Department had reviewed, that there would be no charges brought in any of them.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud, clear, piercing cry of 'design!' The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science. The discovery rivals those of Newton and Einstein, Lavoisier and Schrödinger, Pasteur, and Darwin. The observation of the intelligent design of life is as momentous as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.

Consistently investigate what gives other people energy. Be the fan that fuels it.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

The pain shows you what's left to investigate.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

If you judge, investigate.

It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

The really smart conspiracies are the ones that explain, 'This is why this is plausible,' not, 'This is what happened.' If it makes sense and if it's possible, I'd investigate it.

My view is that the cyber threat is bigger than any one government agency - or even the government itself. But the FBI brings a rare combination of scope and scale, experience, and tools to the mix. We investigate criminal activity like intrusions and cyber attacks, but we also investigate national security threats like foreign influence.

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.

Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The wise do not investigate such silliness.

Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.

To Investigate in the superior worlds, the logic thinking and the exact concept are needed.

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.

I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

No reasonable American believes that someone can investigate their own boss.

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way than prose might investigate it, in a way that includes the power of the music of language and maybe more imaginatively in poetry, but I don't really know about better or worse. I guess it depends on the writer.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

Fish don't have hands; to investigate, they open their mouth, and sometimes it's someone's foot.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

When we need somebody haunted we investigate. When we investigate we do so noisily always.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.

We, the FBI, don't investigate ideology, no matter how repugnant. When it turns to violence, we're all over it.