Inquiry Quotes

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

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.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

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.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

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.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.