Quotes of Enquiry - somelinesforyou

“ The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end. ”

- James Hutton

“ I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss. ”

- George Santayana

“ Truth is a naked and open daylight Truth which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the enquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, and the belief of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. ”

- Francis Bacon
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