Inquiry Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (I) Quotes

There was an inquiry just last week about the new Bette Midler show, and I just didn`t want to do that.

- Robert Urich

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

- Isaac Newton

(The money Sen. Lindsey Graham received came from the federal political action committee and) were not the subject of the Texas inquiry, ... Senator Graham has no intention of returning the contribution.

- Kevin Bishop

(The money Sen. Lindsey Graham received came from the federal political action committee and) were not the subject of the Texas inquiry, ... Sen. Graham has no intention of returning the contribution. It was legally received, reported and spent.

- Kevin Bishop

It is difficult to imagine more extreme race hatred than was contained in the material which was seized during this meticulous inquiry.

- Peter Davies

We have shown an interest in him; we have made an inquiry. He has the most incredible scoring record in Dutch football. Many people have described him as a young Alan Shearer, but whether that`s true or not I don`t know.

- Graeme Souness

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

- Abraham Diskin

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

- Ahmad Fawzi

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

- Al Muchka

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

- Alicia Dlugosh

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

- Alicia Dlugosh

They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.

- Allan Skinner

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, `What is truth?`

- Ana Navarro

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

- Andre Parker

I am driven to the conclusion that, had it not been for the Shipman Inquiry, the GMP would never have made any more thorough inquiry into the matter.

- Angie Hicks

We were surprised at the small number of firms utilizing live chat tools especially given the fact that back in May of 2005, our research showed the average response time to an email inquiry was sixteen hours. Clearly, instant messaging is being widely adopted both by consumers and many businesses yet there is reluctance by online brokerage firms to embrace this popular technology. We recommend that firms provide their clients and prospects with robust live chat tools and technologies in order to increase customer satisfaction and ultimately, gain new clients and revenues.

- Armando Spataro

Whilst it may be too early for us to widen our investigation into the arena of corruption, I certainly have not ruled this out. I have indicated to you that many of the individuals that you wished to hear evidence from may be the very people that could be central to our criminal inquiry, either as witnesses or suspects.

- Arthur Chang

Our major line of inquiry has to be that dissident republicans were behind this particular attack.

- Azeem Azhar

Data analysis serves as a process that underpins scientific inquiry. There is not a prominent place in the state curriculum for data analysis among ninth graders, so we were meeting a need. Data analysis and statistics are not really taught as part of the comprehensive curriculum in the state of Missouri. We wanted to give the kids a chance to work with statistics. Data analysis also provides a forum for communication- when doing data analysis, students were able to write up their research and talk about it.

- Barry Chambers

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

- Thomas Jefferson

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

- Alfred Korzybski

A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends

- Arabian Proverb

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end

- Michel de Montaigne

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

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist

- Robert Maynard Hutchins