INQUIRY

Related Subjects: Curiosity, Question, Research, Study

1. It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.—CICERO
   

2. Free inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, and applied to proper subjects, is a most important privilege of the human mind; and if well conducted, is one of the greatest friends to truth. But when reason knows neither its office nor its limits, and when employed on subjects foreign to its jurisdiction, it then becomes a privilege dangerous to exercise.—J. H. D'AUBIGNE
   

3. The man who is inquisitive into the secrets of your affairs, with which he has no concern, should be an object of your caution. Men no more desire another's secrets to conceal them, than they would another's purse for the pleasure only of carrying it.—FIELDING
   

4. Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking.—THOMAS FULLER
   

5. Shun the inquisitive, for you will be sure to find him leaky. Open ears do not keep conscientiously what has been intrusted to them, and a word once spoken flies, never to be recalled.—HORACE
   

6. It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.—THOMAS PAINE
   

7. An inquisitive man is a creature naturally very vacant of thought itself, and therefore forced to apply to foreign assistance.—SIR RICHARD STEELE
   

8. Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation; they do not take anything for their own use, but merely to pass it on to others.—SIR RICHARD STEELE