Inquiring Mind Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

John Flanagan

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

John Adams

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

Russell M. Nelson

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

Felix Frankfurter

#12. Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm ... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

Blythe Danner

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

Chauncey Guy Suits

#14. Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Jim Goad

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

Pearl Zhu

#16. That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Lauren Oliver

#17. So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God - in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance.

Baruch Spinoza

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.

Judah Friedlander

#22. A good dictionary can only help.

Mary Norris

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

H.L. Mencken

#24. History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

Douglas Brinkley

#25. Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#26. 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

#27. This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Seneca The Younger

#28. Flourishing is the heart of prospering - engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.

Edmund S. Phelps

#29. Never wear a shoe that doesn't fits you.

Tai

#30. Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Brian Raif