Investigating Quotes

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Pregnancy, Long, May

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memorable, Adventure, Sea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Pain, Knowing, Feelings

  "The Essentials: Krzysztof Kieslowski" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2013.

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• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Inspirational, Truth, Doubt

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• As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

  Richard Whately

  Art, Mind, Principles

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• I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Beauty, Hope

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• We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

  Desmond Morris

  Survival, Answers, Enough

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Evil, Blindness

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fundamentals, Might, Way

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• Not only did I manage to accidentally meet the man I’m investigating, I managed to accidentally have sex with him.

  J. L. Langley

  Sex, Men, He Man

  J. L. Langley (2008). “The Englor Affair”, p.88, Samhain Publishing

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Perception, Sound

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is, defining a problem and then investigating different solutions.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Thinking, Different

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.132, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

  Deke Slayton

  Stars, Future, Years

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• The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Powerful, Hard Work

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• No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

  Walther Nernst

  Science, Engineering, Measurement

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• It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Cheer, Home

  DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1963). “STRONG POISON”

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• When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Blind, Natural

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• I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stars, Night, Wind

  Pablo Neruda, “Enigmas”

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• I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

  Jesse Ventura

  Real, Believe, Saving

  "Jesse Ventura Body-Slams the Climate Change “Conspiracy” by Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.

  Adam Thirlwell

  Real, Sarcasm, Space

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