Inquiry Quotes

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.