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Quotes About Investigation

The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.
~ Frank Peretti
No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.
~ George F. Richards
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
~ Anatole France
A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.
~ Frank Carson
They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.
~ Jasper Carrott
Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
~ Phil Donahue
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.
~ Newton D. Baker
Study men, not historians.
~ Harry S. Truman
Josiah White Buffalo tied the dead man's
~ Terry Grosz
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
~ Terry Pratchett
Seeing a piece of notepaper next to the phone, Kozenczak picked it up. It had Phil Torf's name on it. Kozenczak pocketed it. "Thief!
~ Terry Sullivan
Science is always inquiring.
~ Thabo Mbeki
Always ask at the pub, Miss Jekyll. Elementary investigation - the pub always knows.
~ Theodora Goss
Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.
~ Theodora Goss
Ask the next question.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Her crime cost nobody their life, but she famously was escorted off to a women's prison. Had she been a corporation instead of a human being, odds are there never would have even been an investigation. Yet over the past century—and particularly the past forty years—corporations have repeatedly asserted that they are, in fact, "persons" and therefore eligible for the human rights protections of the Bill of Rights.
~ Thom Hartmann
our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
~ Michael Arrington
Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.
~ Domino Kirke
'Intrigue: Murder In The Lucky Holiday Hotel' is a podcast put together by the BBC's Carrie Gracie that investigates the story behind the death of British businessman Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing in 2011.
~ David Hepworth
'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.
~ Chris Carter
I often say that the best way to find a story is a one-inch brief in a local newspaper.
~ David Grann
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.
~ Sibel Edmonds