Investigating Quotes

• Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Pregnancy, Long, May

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Perseverance, Retirement

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memorable, Adventure, Sea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Pain, Knowing, Feelings

  "The Essentials: Krzysztof Kieslowski" by Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2013.

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• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Inspirational, Truth, Doubt

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• As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions.

  Richard Whately

  Art, Mind, Principles

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• I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• I have been privileged to be briefed and to know that we have been visited [by aliens]. I do not have first hand experience in this regard, but I have been on investigating teams and I have been briefed by insiders who do know.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Team, Hands, Knowing

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Love, Beauty, Hope

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• We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

  Desmond Morris

  Survival, Answers, Enough

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Evil, Blindness

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fundamentals, Might, Way

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Collective Unconscious, Long

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

  Deke Slayton

  Stars, Future, Years

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• Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings, perceptions, thoughts, and consciousness all interconnected. Investigating in this way, we come to realize that there is no me or mine in any one part, just as a sound does not belong to any one part of the lute.

  Gautama Buddha

  Feelings, Perception, Sound

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• Not only did I manage to accidentally meet the man I’m investigating, I managed to accidentally have sex with him.

  J. L. Langley

  Sex, Men, He Man

  J. L. Langley (2008). “The Englor Affair”, p.88, Samhain Publishing

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• It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ideas, Missing, Conservative

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• Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is, defining a problem and then investigating different solutions.

  Joey Reiman

  Creativity, Thinking, Different

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.132, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.

  Kelly Link

  Girl, Sarcastic, School

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• Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

  Leo Ryan

  People, Mind, Manipulation

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• Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

  Johannes Stark

  Individuality, Doe, Different

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• There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to differentiate between and-summative aggregates, on the one hand, and gestalten, structures, on the other, both in sub-wholes and in the total field, and to develop appropriate scientific tools for investigating the latter.

  Max Wertheimer

  Thinking, Past, Hands

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• George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award.

  Tina Fey

  Husband, War, Rights

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's best jokes from the 2015 Golden Globes". www.independent.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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• I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

  Claudia Rankine

  Race, Intimacy

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• All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Average, Wish, Hazards

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.108, Hachette UK

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