{"quotes":[{"text":"Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.","author":"Ozzie Zehner","tags":["inquiry","philosophical","science","truth"],"id":10058,"author_id":"Ozzie+Zehner"},{"text":"The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the State. It has the ear of rulers and the control of education. Every generation is suborned in its favor. Those who dissent from it are losers, those who oppose it are ostracised; while in the past, for century after century, it has replied to criticism with imprisonment, and to scepticism with the dungeon and the stake. By such means it has induced a general tendency to allow its pretensions without inquiry and its beneficence without proof.","author":"Joseph Mazzini Wheeler","tags":["brainwashing","christianity","control","doubt","education","fear","inquiry","power","proof","religion","scepticism"],"id":17772,"author_id":"Joseph+Mazzini+Wheeler"},{"text":"In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["honesty","inquiry","insecure","insecurity","integrity","intent","intention","misunderstanding","questions","respect","truth","understanding"],"id":17997,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.","author":"Plato","tags":["inquiry","philosophy","plato","questions","thinking"],"id":23491,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"A good education must expose knowledge gaps and increase the hunger for further inquiries.A good education is not complete.","author":"Magnus Nwagu Amudi","tags":["education","inquiry","knowledge"],"id":51895,"author_id":"Magnus+Nwagu+Amudi"},{"text":"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.","author":"Edwin Hubble","tags":["exploration","inquiry","science"],"id":57348,"author_id":"Edwin+Hubble"},{"text":"Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual inquiry, but moral inquiry. Because God's law trumps human law, people who think they're obeying God can easily get cut off from their own moral instincts. And these moral contortions don't always lie in the realm of theological game-playing. They can have real-world consequences: from genocide to infanticide, from honor killings to abandoned gay children, from burned witches to battered wives to blown-up buildings.","author":"Greta Christina","tags":["cop-out","delusion","ethics","genocide","infanticide","inquiry","morality","superstition","terrorism","undetectable","unknowable","untestable"],"id":80507,"author_id":"Greta+Christina"},{"text":"Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.","author":"Patrick Wilson","tags":["cognitive","communication","connections","inquiry","libraries","understanding"],"id":88131,"author_id":"Patrick+Wilson"},{"text":"A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["biology","evolution","inquiry","life","science","study"],"id":90090,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.","author":"Jon Meacham","tags":["curiosity","inquiry","leadership","liberal-arts"],"id":95779,"author_id":"Jon+Meacham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}