Quotes of Inquiry - somelinesforyou

“ The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. ”

- Sir Peter Medawar

“ In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. ”

- Ann Landers

“ Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs. ”

- Joey Adams

“ He indicates his analysis could have played a critical role. ”

- Pat Roberts

“ Inquiry is fatal to certainty. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ And that, by the way, is not a subjective analysis — that's the analysis of any environmentalist. ”

- Chuck Hagel

“ In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. ”

- Stephen Covey

“ Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. ”

- Brian Eno

“ We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks. ”

- Bill Watterson

“ In our research we found that over 100 families per week, as well as hundreds of individuals including disabled persons, and those with substance abuse problems seek the help of the local food banks. ”

- John Taylor

“ There's such a thing as paralysis by analysis and I think I reached that point. ”

- Alanis Morissette

“ In the final analysis, the bottom line for everybody to remember here is this is not going to be, you know, an Iraqi version of America. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. ”

- Daniel Defoe

“ I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. ”

- John Hurt

“ We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Thus the great gulf between physical and psychological research persists only when we acquiesce in our habitual stereotyped conceptions. ”

- Ernst Mach

“ In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I insist on my position to allow the participation of these two lawyers to avoid risking a mistrial. ”

- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

“ Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. ”

- Albert Szent Gyorgyi

“ I often wish… that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ”

- Bliss Carman

“ In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere — it is an art form in itself. ”

- Anita Brookner

“ We are satisfied that Syria is contributing actively in applying the international resolution dealing with the enquiry into the assassination of Rafiq Hariri. ”

- Igor Ivanov
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