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Quotes About Inquire

Ye have not, because ye ask not.
~ Bible
Begin with disbelief. Analyse, test, prove everything, and then take it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Hence the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire...
~ Nietzsche
He then made bold to inquire what business brought him there. 'Your welfare!' said the Ghost. Scrooge expressed himself much obliged, but could not help thinking that a night of unbroken rest would have been more conducive to that end. The Spirit must have heard him thinking, for it said immediately: 'Your reclamation, then.
~ Charles Dickens
If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything should be doubted and tested before it is held to be true.
~ Charles Nicholl
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much to burst through the screen with a flame thrower and burn their eyes out and their balls off and then inquire from them how they would assess the action from a political point of view.
~ Harold Pinter
Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.
~ Winston Graham
combined to break his reserve; before he knew it, he had joined in a discussion, one of those half cynical, half serious discussions which are characteristic of an age which inquires because it doubts, and doubts the more because it has inquired.
~ Winston S. Churchill
When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.
~ Paul Davies
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
~ Samuel Johnson
If you don't ask for that which you want to know,the answer will always be no.
~ Unknown
If you want to G-E-T then you have to A-S-K.
~ John Gray
My mom always said, you can't get what you want in until you ask.
~ Unknown
When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest.
~ Dalai Lama
But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us, to know Whence our lives come and where they go.
~ Matthew Arnold
Science can investigate nature and inquire into the empirical world, but it cannot answer moral questions or disprove free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts. We can't prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.
~ Michael J. Sandel
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not still a prophet of the LORD here of whom we can inquire?”
~ 1 Kings 22:7
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here? Let us inquire of the LORD through him.” And one of the servants of the king of Israel answered, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here. He used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
~ 2 Kings 3:11
So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ëWill I recover from this illness?í”
~ 2 Kings 8:8
But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëAs for the words that you heard,
~ 2 Kings 22:18
But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëAs for the words that you heard,
~ 2 Chronicles 34:26
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
~ Isaiah 21:12