Open Inquiry Quotes

#1. The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.

Sharon Weil

#2. My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

Christian Scriver

#3. Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.

Michael Shermer

#4. So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

Bruno Schulz

#5. Everything owed is due again.

Linda Robinson

#6. There are times in our lives when everything comes together and we know we are exactly where we are supposed to be.

Melissa Foster

#7. We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

Tariq Ramadan

#8. Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

Sidney Hook

#9. The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

Terence McKenna

#10. A spiritual and saving knowledge of God is the greatest need of every human creature.

Arthur W. Pink

#11. The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#12. I saw him because I see everything. Easy when no one notices you.

Richelle Mead

#13. While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

Thomas Jefferson

#14. In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

Jean Kerr

#15. Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Rupert Sheldrake

#16. What darkness to you is light to me

Jules Verne