Quotes About Investigation

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

I'm a naturally curious person.

He liked that she gave the questions thought. That she actually saw the mysteries and worked at solving them.

She didn't want to go up to him and find him dead. She'd found enough dead people, their bodies soaking in bright red blood. Who knew there was do much blood in the human body? Or that it could be so sticky and get everywhere?

flowers. From your stalker. What do we have on them? I know their names were on the list for the investigators." "I have the

Bryant wanted to be outside digging up corpses and chasing (as much as his bad leg would allow) unscrupulous but fiendishly brilliant villains through the back alleys of the city. Instead he was meeting a clerk about forgotten bits of paperwork.

It's all a complete farce you understand? We're born into a losing struggle...I've investigated the road up ahead. No one comes out of this a winner. In the meantime I think one must show some contempt and some defiance and the best means of doing that that I know are irony and obscenity.

This need to know things at the level of basic experience, and the reluctance to be fobbed off by the official story or the popular rumor, was a part of the "infinite capacity for taking pains" that Thomas Carlyle once described as the constituent of genius.

In our world, surely the worst thing anyone can say is; 'No further inquiry is needed. You've already got all you need to know.' It is the most sinister and dangerous thing.

When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side

One week after the British announced the creation of the UNWCC in early October 1942, the Soviet Union convened its own war crimes panel, the ponderously titled Extraordinary State Commission for Establishing and Investigating the Crimes of the German Fascist Occupiers and Their Collaborators and the Damage Caused by Them to the Citizens, Kholkhozes, Social Organizations, State Enterprises and Institutions of the USSR—more simply, the Extraordinary State Commission (ESC).

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind.

If a student works rigorously, no topic is truly foolish, and the student can draw useful conclusions even from a remote or peripheral topic.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.

Yo sospecho, sospecho siempre.

In hanc utilitatem clementes angeli saepe figuras, characteres, formas et voces invenerunt proposueruntque nobis mortalibus et ignotas et stupendas nullius rei iuxta consuetum linguae usum significativas, sed per rationis nostrae summam admirationem in assiduam intelligibilium per-vestigationem, deinde in illorum ipsorum venerationem et amorem inductivas.

Los libros no están hechos para que uno crea en ellos, sino para ser sometidos a investigación. Cuando consideramos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué significa

Adso —me dijo con impaciencia el maestro—, aprende a razonar con tu cabeza. —Después cambió de tema—: Ahora debemos interrogar a algunas personas. Al menos —añadió mientras exploraba la meseta con la mirada— mientras sigan vivas.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means

albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into

The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.