92 Quotes About Inquiry
- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Once you learn to question, you will start to learn.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Cynicism breeds hate, whereas inquiry breeds understanding.
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- Author Edward Craig
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they may also be implying that making the discovery that human beings just can’t cope with certain kinds of question, and making that discovery for yourself – and actually making it, rather than just lazily assuming that you know it already – isn’t a valuable experience, or is an experience without effects. Surely that cannot be true?
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- Author Louisa May Alcott
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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.
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- Author Curt Gabrielson
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If you tell somebody something, you've forever robbed them of the opportunity to discover it for themselves.
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- Author Raheel Farooq
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Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
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- Author Jonathan Renshaw
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Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.
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- Author T.F. Hodge
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In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.
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- Author Geoffrey Hill
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Who now would thrust enquiry on / Beyond necessity of desire?
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