Inquiring Quotes
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.
walter savage landor— To Robert Browning (1846). Compare: "Nor sequent centuries could hit/ Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit", Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces, Solution.
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
felix frankfurter— Dennis v. United States, 241 U.S. 494, 556 (1951).
Moreover she, and Clare also, stood as yet on the debatable land between predilection and love; where no profundities have been reached; no reflections have set in, awkwardly inquiring, "Whither does this new current tend to carry me? What does it mean to my future? How does it stand towards my past?"
thomas hardy— Phase the Third: The Rally, ch. XX
The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive . Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.
gerry spence— Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 178
I find on inquiring among successful pastors, successful in the sense of winning men to Christ in profession, that they depend largely on personal contact.
— D. A. Goodsell, p. 413. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, in "Headline from History – October 12th – The Mathew Shepard Story".
The problem can be approached initially either by inquiring into the properties of the choosing organism, or by inquiring into the environment of choice.
— Herbert A. Simon (1955) in “A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 69(1), p.100 quoted in “Bounded Rationality and Macroeconomics”
...if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence , there may be no great harm done by the mere belief ; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
— William Kingdon Clifford in: Kelly James Clark Readings in the Philosophy of Religion, second edition, Broadview Press, 14-Feb-2008, p.194
The inquiring subject must be in one of two situations: either he must in faith be convinced of the truth of Christianity and his own relation to it, in which case all the rest cannot possibly be of infinite interest, since faith is precisely the infinite interest in Christianity and any other interest easily becomes a temptation; or he is not in a relationship of faith but is objectively in a relationship of observation and as such is not infinitely interested in deciding the question.
— Soren Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Hong, p. 21 (1846).
If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is “pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,” then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.
anthony daniels— The Cost of Frivolity (February 1, 2007)
