Enquires Quotes

#1. Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.

Charles Lyell

#2. One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

Elspeth Huxley

#3. Rutherford is a man you can rely on; he comes regularly and enquires how things are going and talks about the smallest details - Rutherford is such an outstanding man and really interested in the work of all the people around him.

Niels Bohr

#4. About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Albert Einstein

#5. A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.

Ted Sizer

#6. Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Peter Charles Newman

#7. I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

Robert Gottlieb

#9. Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

Seth Godin

#10. The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Francis Bacon

#11. If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

Franz Kafka

#12. Nobody knew my rose of the world but me ... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

Tennessee Williams