Quotes about Investigation
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
— JRR Tolkien
The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.
— Frank Peretti
Study men, not historians.
— Harry S. Truman
our manner of knowing is so weak that no philosopher could perfectly investigate the nature of even one little fly.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Mr. Bucket and his fat forefinger are much in consultation together under existing circumstances. When Mr. Bucket has a matter of this pressing interest under his consideration, the fat forefinger seems to rise, to the dignity of a familiar demon. He puts it to his ears, and it whispers information; he puts it to his lips, and it enjoins him to secrecy; he rubs it over his nose, and it sharpens his scent; he shakes it before a guilty man, and it charms him to his destruction.
— Charles Dickens
There is in every department of investigation great liability to error. Almost all false theories in science and false doctrines in theology are due in a great degree to mistakes as to matters of fact.
— Charles Hodge
How do I work? I grope.
— Albert Einstein
Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.
— Steven James
If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.
— George W. Bush
in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.
— JM Coetzee
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have cirumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own I ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
— Milan Kundera