Enquire Quotes

#1. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates

Charlotte Temple

#2. We may not always know what we're wanted for, nor is it for us to enquire, but nobody is useless as long as he is permitted to live.

Mrs. Alfred Gatty

#3. To grasp the essence of chirality, it is instructive to withdraw for a moment from the familiar three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one, into a plane, and enquire what chirality means there.

Vladimir Prelog

#4. What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

Elizabeth Smart

#5. Terrible mania, when something happens, to enquire what.

Samuel Beckett

#6. Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

Robert Payne

#7. Christiana alures her to the Gate which is Christ, and promiseth there to enquire for her.

John Bunyan

#8. By doubting we are led to enquire, and by enquiry we perceive the truth.

Peter Abelard

#9. People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

Jay Sankey

#10. It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.

Anna Freeman

#13. The more you try to enquire, the more it will get intriguing. That is the peculiar thing about mysteries.
You need to prove you can handle the revelations

Alcatraz Dey

#14. I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

Jane Austen

#15. Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

Ezra Cornell

#16. The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.

Agis II

#17. We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals - or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms

John Okechukwu Munonye

#18. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

Michael Healy

#19. If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away from God.

Watchman Nee

#20. Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth.

Plato

#21. Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

John Adams

#22. But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

Frances Wright

#23. When I meet some of my commuting acquaintances on the 6.21 home to Henley-on-Thames they occasionally enquire what I have done that day. I have been known to reply: 'I moved Africa 600 kilometres to the south.' They usually turn quickly to the soccer page. One

Richard Fortey

#24. The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.

Karl Marx

#25. About her husband, i did actually enquire, but she held her private life so fucking tightly, like a tourist clutching a handbag on the A train,..

Peter Carey

#26. There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, "Who is here the sheykh?" he would answer him "I am he.

Charles M. Doughty

#27. Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?"

Ramana Maharshi

#28. How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#29. I shan't ask you how you do, ma'am: to enquire after a lady's health implies that she is not in her best looks. Besides, I can see that you are in high bloom.

Georgette Heyer

#30. I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.

Waris Ahluwalia

#31. Afterward, she hooked a limp arm around his neck, buried her face against his shoulder, and whispered, Don't ever get hypothermia with anyone but me.

Catherine Anderson

#32. If you're doing something that people want, they'll find you.

Jack White

#33. Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.
Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.

Taylor Mali

#34. In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

Henry Rollins

#35. I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.

Ted Haggard

#36. I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

Clara Hughes

#37. The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Tony Curtis

#38. Story ... if you could finish it ... you could rest ... you could sleep ... not before ... oh I know ... the ones I've finished ... thousands and one ... all I ever did ... in my life ... with my life ... saying to myself ... finish this one ... it's the right one ... then rest ...

Samuel Beckett

#39. Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#40. Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance

Howard Zehr

#41. If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

Simmie Knox

#42. It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.

Alexander McCall Smith

#43. What Heaven detests, who knows why? Even the sage considers it difficult.

Laozi