Quotes of: Inquiring Keyword

Luck stops at the door and inquires whether prudence is within.

Danish

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 an...

Richard Cobden

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Chinese

The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind.

Even Engesland

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire b...

The Reader

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

Fragments

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Virgil

Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?

Isaiah (Bible #23), ESV

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

Spirit Tale Five: Teacher of Knowledge

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

Horace

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Felix Frankfurter

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

Katherine Waterston

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

V. S. Naipaul

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Annie Dillard

Are you single?” inquired − rather bluntly − the email titled “Career Opportunity.

The Scriptlings

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

John Donne

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.

David Josiah Brewer

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

John Adams

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

Charles Dickens

Waldo Lydecker: I just dropped in to inquire about the state of your health? Insipid, I hope.

Laura