#inquiry

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

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

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To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue, but rather a moral one. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

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We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. ↗

— Jack Cade

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A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

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