Investigation Quotes

• Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

  Albert Einstein

  Ignorance, Character, Height

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

  George F. Richards

  Men, Judging

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• Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Science, Power

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (11), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

  Blake Edwards

  Games, Criminals, Guessing

  "Fictional character: Clouseau". "A Shot in the Dark", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.

  Albert Einstein

  Ignorance, Form, Condemnation

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• The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

  Louise Penny

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.839, Macmillan

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• At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

  Walter Rudolf Hess

  Choices, Technique, Appropriate

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• It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. It's also that the philosophers are well-versed in the relevant empirical data, and the scientists are well-versed in the more abstract issues which are typically the central focus of philosophical work.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophical, Data, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wisdom, Results

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• It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

  Sakya Pandita

  Enemy, Meat, Poison

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• A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Agreement, Facts, Mark

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• Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Nature, Science

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• 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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• This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Belief, Pleasure

  William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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• There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

  Oliver Herford

  Swimming, Motivational Sales, Rooms

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Grant, Addison Mizner (2017). “The Complete Cynic”, p.17, Litres

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Denial, May

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• Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

  Walt Whitman

  Faith, Knowledge, Science

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Age, Movement, Exploration

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

  E. W. Howe

  Expression, Giving, Literature

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• An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

  Diane Sawyer

  Six Months, May, Interviews

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• Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.

  Jo Bonner

  Justice, September 11, Ongoing

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• All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

  Robert Mueller

  Mean, Always Trying, Agents

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• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Principles, Influence

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

  Roman Jakobson

  Photography, Eras, Rays

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• The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

  Antisthenes

  Clarity, Communicate, Meanings Of Words

  "Discourses of Epictetus". Book by Arrian, I, 17,

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