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Quotes About Investigate

Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and so she chose music that expressed order and healing:Bach for order, Mozart for healing.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But just to remove all doubt, let me tell you how I found your base in the first place.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.
~ Wilhelm Wundt
He had just fixed his hose on to the nearest garden tap when he noticed an offensive smell which seemed to be coming from the direction of the hydrangeas. Before turning on the tap he thought he had better investigate or Cook would be kicking up a shine with a stink so close to the kitchen door.
~ Joan Lindsay
You don't really believe I intend harm, do you?" If he intended to marry her, she considered that great harm indeed. But Flora the housemaid couldn't say that. Bill rose and gave himself a good shake before he trotted forward to investigate the stranger's boots. Bite him, Bill. Lord Lyle clicked his elegant fingers. And Bill, the rotten traitor, yipped in delight and rolled over to offer his pink belly for a scratch. "Nice
~ Anna Campbell
This was perfect dictator-logic: we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy.
~ Anna Funder
Proof' is going to be, in many ways, a mystery. It's not a procedural in any way. It's not a medical drama. It really is about trying to investigate whether or not there's life after death.
~ Joe Morton
As a former FBI counterintelligence agent who investigated foreign propaganda cases, I've seen firsthand how foreign intelligence services leverage American freedoms - and the constitutional limitations on the FBI's investigative power - to their advantage.
~ Asha Rangappa
To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.
~ Lisa Lutz
Theseus- O mankind so deluded! so pointlessly deluded! Why investigate, study, devise ten thousand technologies yet you do not know this one thing and cannot grasp it: how to teach a mindless man to think.
~ Euripides
One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.
~ F.Scott Fitzgerald
If someone annoys you on Twitter, check their feed first: you need to know if they're crazy.
~ Retta
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.
~ Rithy Panh
He valued money too highly to dispense it lightly and wanted to investigate all requests before acting upon them.
~ Ron Chernow
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out.
~ Rudyard Kipling
You're supposed to be a detective. Well, detect.
~ Ruth Rendell
Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those laws to achieve an effect. One which might easily appear magical in the eyes of the primitive.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Investigate what is, and not what pleases.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Search for evidence and don't be satisfied until you know the why.
~ Edward B. Burger
The power to investigate is a great public trust.
~ Emanuel Celler
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.
~ Julian Assange
Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
~ Kate Williams
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
~ Denis Diderot