Top 100 Quotes About Investigation
#1. Criminal investigation has been loosely compared to many things, including the putting together of a jigsaw puzzle. It is seldom that simple. The pieces of such a puzzle are of a fixed shape, immutable. Men and women change shape when touched.
Frances Lockridge
#2. After the matter has cooled off during an extended period of investigation, to find a scapegoat to blame for unauthorized tampering with the mails.
Colin A. Ross
#3. In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.
Susan Sarandon
#4. Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
Anthony Lewis
#5. If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
Richard Dawkins
#6. The Salander investigation is fake. Bjorck's original doesn't match Blomkvist's version. Classify Top Secret.
Stieg Larsson
#7. Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.
James Jackson Jarves
#8. Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#9. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks ...
J. Edgar Hoover
#11. Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale
#12. [On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation ... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.
Proclus
#13. An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
Diane Sawyer
#14. This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
William Kingdon Clifford
#15. The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.
Nhat Hanh
#16. To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward .
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#17. The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.
Edmund Burke
#18. We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#19. I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.
William Walker
#20. I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government ... completes its investigation.'
Tom Brokaw
#21. This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.
Alberto Gonzales
#22. You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. I think you should try to keep the details of our investigation secret." "Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.
Cassandra Clare
#24. It was shocking to realize how much of investigation was just brute-force solutions.
James S.A. Corey
#26. To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
Mencius
#27. I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.
William James
#28. The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
Alan Watts
#29. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
John Stuart Mill
#30. Nothing is more obstructive to the investigation of the truth than prior commitments to partial truths.
Jacobus Arminius
#31. Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
Thom Mayne
#32. An examined life, an enigmatic investigation of reality, is required in order for a person to realize a transcendent spiritual journey. A contemplative soul is bound to live life more intensely than someone whom is concerned exclusively with living an external existence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
Peter Carey
#34. Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
Eric Schneiderman
#35. We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.
Wesley Clark
#36. A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
A.O. Scott
#37. They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.
Galileo Galilei
#38. His face registered the five stages of unlawful investigation: disbelief, skepticism, impatience, irritation, and astonishment.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#39. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
#40. Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Karl Abraham
#41. I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
Rahm Emanuel
#42. Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
Oscar Isaac
#43. Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
Peter Diamandis
#44. We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#45. The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
#46. By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.
Johannes Stark
#47. Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true
it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.
Tara Brach
#48. The weirdest thing can squirrel an investigation Never speak ill of the dead, and never, ever, claim you've got a suspect until the court case is over and he's behind bars.
Ridley Pearson
#49. Dalgliesh reflected that one of the minor hazards of a murder investigation was the inordinate amount of caffeine he was expected to consume. But he wanted the interview to be as informal as possible, and food or drink always helped.
P.D. James
#51. The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat,
Robert M. Pirsig
#52. Is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.
Octavio Paz
#53. This investigation felt difficult, like driving in fog.
Sara Sheridan
#54. There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
William Osler
#55. Holocaust Museum said ISIS has carried out genocide against the Yazidis, but its investigation did not cover Christian persecution. Now there's concern the U.S. State Department might do the same, limiting any genocide pronouncement to Yazidis without mentioning Christians.
Tom Gjelten
#56. We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
Ken Starr
#57. Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.
Jeremy Narby
#58. As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
Steven Hatfill
#59. My opponents will do anything they can to distract from their own flawed candidate. Bob Menendez is under federal criminal investigation. As far as I know, he is the only candidate for Senate under federal criminal investigation.
Thomas Kean Jr.
#61. The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.
Louise Penny
#62. I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand,
P.G. Wodehouse
#63. It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.
Hasan M. Elahi
#64. Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.
George Coyne
#65. ... whenever you were in a fix or at a crossroads in an investigation, there were always two choices: to do nothing and worry, or to take some sort of action and deal with its associated risks.
Jessica Lawson
#66. Respect for the faith of sincere believers cannot be allowed either to block or deflect the investigation of the historian.
Maxime Rodinson
#67. I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.
George Coyne
#68. David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.
Howard Zinn
#69. When you're doing an investigation of a company that is doing things that they don't want to be found out, and they say, "I don't want to be on tape," you're not suddenly going to step away and say, "Okay, I'm not going to make a film."
David Farrier
#70. I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee.
Mike Coffman
#71. After all the investigation, all of the technique-doesn't matter! Only if the feeling is right.
John Coltrane
#72. The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.
Marty Meehan
#73. In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
William J. Clinton
#74. We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
Edward Everett
#75. The shot has gone under my rib, Boulard my boy, so it must have been the shortest one who fired.
Even his final sigh was a police investigation.
Timothee De Fombelle
#77. I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.
Cate Shortland
#78. Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
Stanislav Grof
#79. The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Barbara Olson
#80. Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
Anthony Kennedy
#81. I know Edmond Locard's Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.
C.J. Box
#82. You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.
Percy Barnevik
#83. Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
Tim Crouch
#84. One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.
Louis Stokes
#85. The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
Ann Veneman
#86. How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
Seneca The Younger
#87. I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
Bob Devaney
#88. The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.
Peter Diamandis
#90. I wasn't thinking all of them - just Zed and Victor. Zed as the seventh son has a touch of most of our skills and can hold us together when we do a joint investigation. He's a pain in the neck but a useful one.
Joss Stirling
#91. Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.
John William Draper
#92. The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges.
Robert Luskin
#93. No peace among the nations
without peace among the religions.
No peace among the religions
without dialogue between the religions
No dialogue between the religions
without investigation of the foundation of the religions.
Hans Kung
#94. For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
Edmund Burke
#95. During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.
Donald Keyhoe
#96. Eye-rolling is not exactly the pinnacle of socratic investigation.
Stefan Molyneux
#97. The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait the result of the investigation - that it was preferable to hang the accused first and try him afterward.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
#98. What is true never fears investigation; what is false ... fears everything.
Guy Finley
#99. Our investigation is ongoing," he said.
"Do you know something you're not telling me?"
"Yes."
"Right. Well, at least someone knows something. That's a nice bloody change.
Derek Landy
#100. Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
M. Stanton Evans
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