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Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.

Terry Pratchett

Men, Light, Play

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But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

Thomas Paine

Religious, Kings, Mean

"Common Sense". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. 1776.

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When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Limits, Satisfaction, Energy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.7, e-artnow

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An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.

Bruce Lee

Believe, Intelligent, Mind

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.36, Tuttle Publishing

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Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain that way. Religion is something natural. To ask from where you come is relevant; to ask, 'Who am I?' is going to remain relevant always. But the modern mind has created a climate of atheism so you cannot ask such questions. If you ask, people laugh. If you talk about such things, people feel bored If you start inquiring in these ways, people think you are slipping out of your sanity. Religion is no longer a welcome inquiry.

Rajneesh

Religious, Men, Thinking

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There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.

J. William Fulbright

Self, Two, America

J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.274, Random House

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You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

John Flanagan

Should Have, Mind, Said

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Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Joe Queenan

Book, Psychological, Chickens

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Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

C. S. Lewis

Book, Quality, Fiction

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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Margaret Atwood

Mind, Inquiring Minds

Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

Rainer Maria Rilke

Artist, Greatness, Destiny

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He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.

Emily Bronte

Pain, Thinking, Hands

Emily Bronte (2016). “Wuthering Heights”, p.68, My Ebook Publishing House

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Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in her perfectly arranged hair.

Jeaniene Frost

Home, Hair, Nerves

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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.

John Donne

Running, Sleep, Doubt

John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

Russell M. Nelson

Mind, Lord, Teach

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The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

Rene Descartes

Writing, Discovery, Rainbow

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The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fashion, Home, Race

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.456, Best Books on

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Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.

Chauncey Guy Suits

Motivational, Children, Learning

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... and over that side of the island all their sacred men were at work trying to kill me by their (magical) arts. Messengers arrived from every quarter of the island, inquiring anxiously about my health, and wondering if I was not feeling sick.

John Gibson Paton

Art, Men, Islands

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Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has treated them. Be slow to give your friendship, but when you have given it, strive to make it lasting; for it is as reprehensible to make many changes in one's associates as to have no friends at all. Neither test your friends to your own injury nor be willing to forego a test of your companions.

Isocrates

Friendship, Men, Giving

"Complete Works of Isocrates".

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A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Science, Data, Scientist

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No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value

Claude C. Hopkins

Taken, Writing, Weight

Claude C. Hopkins (2016). “Scientific Advertising”, p.23, Laurus - Lexecon Kft.

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The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real, Twenties, Students

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

Clarence Darrow

Men, Law, Two

Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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Teaching is not the mere imparting of information but the cultivation of an inquiring mind which will penetrate into the question of what is religion and not merely accept the established religions, churches, and rituals.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Teaching, Mind, Cultivation

"The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti".

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