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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Psychology, Healthy

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Oftentimes, when people cut a record from analog tape to vinyl, they digitize the music first; I did a little investigating and discovered that most vinyl records that I've ever heard were digitized before they were put onto vinyl.

  Kevin Shields

  Cutting, People, Tape

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

  Elijah Cummings

  House, Today, Republican

  "FBI Director Faces Congress Over Hillary Clinton Email Investigation". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, www.npr.org. July 7, 2016.

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• I read a lot, and I think it's important to stay current on the new health kicks. Some are out there just to make money, but some are really worth investigating and incorporating into our diets.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Thinking, Important, Making Money

  "Jennifer Aniston on Battling Dry Eyes and the New Herb She Thinks You Should Try". Interview with Sara Gaynes Levy, www.glamour.com. August 26, 2016.

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• [Tim White] always spoke about his work in terms of forensics, as if he was investigating a crime scene. While we were there, they found the fossilized excrement of a lion that had turned into stone, and we would immediately start to concoct stories. Was it a lion that killed the early human? Of course, the lion could've been there three weeks later, or maybe 20,000 years earlier.

  Werner Herzog

  Years, White, Lions

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

  Eric McCormack

  Character, Long Ago, Circles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Instead of investigating the fact that the president-elect [Donald trump] is going to be violating "The Constitution" with these flows of foreign fighters, they admit they have a problem. They say, oh, well, we won't - his lawyers said well, we want take the profits in the hotels.

  Norman L. Eisen

  President, Want, Flow

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• What about the golf courses?What about the huge foreign bank loans?What about the condos and the apartments that they sell, the promoting and the trademarks?[ Jason] Chaffetz should be investigating the president-elect's impeding violation of the constitution, not this poor government official who is just trying to do his job. And Mr. Chaffetz has endorsed that unconstitutional plan.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Jobs, Golf, Government

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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