Inquiring Quotes

“A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.”

“You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.”

“I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine.”

“Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.”

“We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.”

“One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.”

“The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.”

“A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.”

“Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.”