An Inquiring Mind Quotes

#1. We should not go to the [poor countries] and say: 'We come to ... teach you our science, to show you your errors.' ... We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn [from] these people.

Che Guevara

#2. The grandest form of delusion is misconstruing the obvious. Persons with an open, inquisitive, and intuitive mind can detect hidden clues that aggressive, narrow-minded, and impatient rationalist fail to perceive.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H.L. Mencken

#4. When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Margaret Atwood

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

Felix Frankfurter

#6. The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

Russell M. Nelson

#7. There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#8. We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.

Gerald Edelman

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

John Adams

#10. A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

Mary Oliver

#11. The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ellen G. White

#12. A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

Pearl Zhu

#13. An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Bruce Lee

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

John Flanagan

#15. Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#16. Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

Chauncey Guy Suits

#17. If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.

Edward Hodnett

#18. Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti