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• Called an inquiry into the laws which determine the division of the produce.

  David Ricardo

  Law, Division, Produce

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• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Book, Hands

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• The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Knowledge Of God, Reason

  Immanuel Kant, Allen W. Wood (1986). “Lectures on Philosophical Theology”, p.23, Cornell University Press

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Agency, Organization

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• Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Science, Experience

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Military, Order, Mind

  Ford Madox Ford, Graham Greene (1963). “The Bodley Head: Parade's end. Pt.2. No more parades. Pt.3. A man could stand up”

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• One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others

  Bruce Lee

  Independent, Blue, Honest

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.202, Tuttle Publishing

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• So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

  Bruno Schulz

  Soul, Trying, Depth

  Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski (1990). “Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose”, Fromm Intl

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• Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Scare, Compassionate

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

  Joyce DiDonato

  Heart, Eye, Understanding

  Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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• The realization of Truth and Reality can never be created by the mind ... it always comes as a gift of grace. Inquiry clears away misperceptions and illusions, making one available to the movements of grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Grace, Mind

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• To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Solitude, Answers

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

  John Calvin

  Pride, Men, Vanity

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Water, Gone

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• Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Mistake, Work Out

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

  James Hillman

  Death, Ideas, Effort

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

  Bruce Lee

  Understanding, Perception, Moments

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.186, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Edmund Husserl

  Consciousness, Glances, Apprehension

  Edmund Husserl (2014). “Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology”, p.154, Routledge

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• How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Self, Mind, Spirit

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• The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

  Aristotle

  Order, Would Be, Purpose

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

  Bruce Lee

  Book, Independent, Views

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.209, Tuttle Publishing

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• Richard Nixon got kicked out of Washington for tapping one hotel suite. Today we're tapping every American citizen in the country, and no one has been put on trial for it or even investigated. We don't even have an inquiry into it.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Citizens, Trials

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

  Jean Toomer

  Inspirational, Ideas, Old Habits

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Citizens, Arms

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• Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Water, Made

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