Investigation Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.

  Wafa Sultan

  Height, Telling The Truth

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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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• The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Men, Firsts

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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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• Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

  Albert Einstein

  Playing Games, Games, Form

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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

  Sara Teasdale

  Wisdom, Results

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• Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.

  Humphry Davy

  Science, Light, Discovery

  Sir Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Salmonia, or Days of fly-fishing. Consolation in travel, or The last days of a philosopher”, p.362

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• My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Criminals, Roles, Obligation

  "Louis Freeh says he 'distrusted' Bill Clinton". www.today.com. October 10, 2005.

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• To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Errors, Data, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

  Robert Mueller

  Mean, Differences, Facts

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Nature, Science

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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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• 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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• How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Science, Discovery

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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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