#inquire

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#acres #corn #count #each #how

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? ↗

— Lord Byron

#anxious #atom #came #dead #go

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. ↗

— Frances Wright

#believe #examine #faith #grounds #i

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #any #been #country #degree

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#cream #enjoy #ice #ice cream #inquire

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#already #discover #doing #good #good time

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is. ↗

— David Guterson

#completely #complex #entire #entire world #everybody

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#any #avenues #debate #different #different ways

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ↗

— Horace

#cease #day #forth #future #gift

The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#because #began #business #come #did