Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

Byron Katie

With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment.

Byron Katie

After you've been doing inquiry for a while, if you have the thought "She doesn't love me," you just get the immediate turnaround with a smile: "Oh, I'm not loving myself in this moment."

Edward Sapir

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edmund Husserl

Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

Alexander Hamilton

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

Dennis Hastert

It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security,

Aristotle

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Bobby Ray Inman

Society has recognized over time that certain kinds of scientific inquiry can endanger society as a whole and has applied either directly, or through scientific/ethical constraints, restrictions on the kind and amount of research that can be done in those areas.

Yolanda Adams

I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

Bel Powley

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

Carl Sagan

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

Bill Burr

Deny your emotions and act like you have answers

Damon Lindelof

The answers to those questions were a beginning instead of a payoff. And as a result of that, those answers are coming in the first three episodes of season two. Because they lay out the groundwork for what that entire season is about. Including the numbers.

Cliff Edwards

The answers to these questions will constitute a legacy of this sitting court.

Byron Callan

The answers to the questions of 1979-80 were very different than what we are expecting in the months to come.

Dan Castellaneta

The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Harry Samit

The answers dictate the logical course of the interview. You can't ask logical follow-up questions if he provides misleading answers. It takes you down all sorts of alleys--wild goose chases, essentially.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Bono

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.

Benjamin Disraeli

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.

Albert Einstein

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Albert J. Nock

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

H. L. Mencken

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.

George F. Kennan

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

Nicolas Chamfort

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.