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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. -- Sara Teasdale
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. -- Stanislav Grof
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. -- Blake Edwards
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. -- Will Rogers
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
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. -- Richard M. Nixon
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. -- William Osler
I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness. -- Jason Schwartzman
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. -- Alfred Adler
Investigation is never complete. -- Peter Greenaway
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
Investigation in our own life is far more rewarding than investigating life of other's. -- Aditya Ajmera
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks... -- J. Edgar Hoover
Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names." "Good idea," said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein. -- Cassandra Clare
I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee. -- Mike Coffman
We really haven't seen much of the attorney general or people from the Department of Justice. So it's very consistent with the way this investigation has been handled, and that is that the decisions have been made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. -- Alberto Gonzales
While the Congress came out with Federal Investigation Agency Bill after Mumbai attacks, the BJP had come out with POTA. However, the important aspect is how to prevent such terror activities from taking place and there is no thinking on this by either of the two parties -- Sitaram Yechury
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance -- Albert Einstein
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day. -- Diane Sawyer
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation -- Walter Rudolf Hess
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. -- Roman Jakobson
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation. -- Michael Baden
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. -- Alfred de Vigny
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman
We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action. -- Jerry Reinsdorf
By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world. -- Johannes Stark
As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation. -- Ellen Gustafson
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks. -- George Pataki
As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could. -- Steven Hatfill
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. -- Anthony Kennedy
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth. -- Walid Jumblatt
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. -- William Kingdon Clifford
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. -- Charles Babbage
I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas. -- John Sherman Cooper
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives. -- Jim Garrison
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages. -- Anthony Lewis
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction. -- Simon Greenleaf
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. -- W.S. Gilbert
In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. -- W.S. Gilbert
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. -- Archibald Hill
Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. -- Talcott Parsons
I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed. -- Rahm Emanuel
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' -- Max Weber
I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. -- Clint Eastwood
There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world. -- Max Heindel
In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject. -- Gerald R. Ford
Revelation replaced investigation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Art is an investigation. -- Twyla Tharp
I am my own investigation territory. -- Lucas Samaras
Painting is an investigation of being. -- Squeak Carnwath
Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation. -- Lily King
Lack of compliance is hindering the investigation. -- Charlie Melancon
Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation -- Mikhail Lomonosov
Games are the most elevated form of investigation. -- Albert Einstein
The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'. -- Louise Penny
Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance. -- Albert Einstein
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation. -- Goparaju Ramachandra Rao
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation. -- George F. Richards
Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know. -- Mark Doty
Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage. -- Wafa Sultan
What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything. -- Guy Finley
There is always room at the top - after the investigation. -- Oliver Herford
I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature. -- Ian Mcewan
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. -- Antisthenes
The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation -- Benjamin Franklin
The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Democratic Party would like to see an open independent bipartisan investigation [about hacking]. -- Donna Brazile
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. -- James A. Garfield
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery. -- Jeremy Narby
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook. -- Sidney Blumenthal
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens. -- Anaxagoras
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. -- Karl Abraham
The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. -- Nhat Hanh
The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation." -- Walter Rudolf Hess
I should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet -- Debbie Cowens
See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject. -- Ramana Maharshi
The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take. -- Janet Reno
You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death. -- Percy Barnevik
Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. -- Andrew Jackson Davis
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. -- George Pataki
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. -- Jill Lepore
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. -- Jill Lepore
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. -- Charles Darwin
Blackstone's Police Operational Handbook recommends the ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing, and Check everything. -- Ben Aaronovitch
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. -- Victor Francis Hess
The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go. -- Nhat Hanh
The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best. -- Edmund Burke
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means. -- Aristotle
For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house. -- Shelley Berkley
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation. -- Hasan M. Elahi
Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation. -- Andy Serkis
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach. -- Athenaeus
The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation. -- Walter Lippmann
One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. -- Louis Stokes
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end. -- Tim Crouch
The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation. -- Stan Freberg
The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation. -- Noam Chomsky
The senate intelligence committee announced it would launch a bipartisan investigation into Russia`s alleged interference in the election. -- Donald Trump
Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. -- Sergio De La Pava
Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time. -- Barack Obama
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation. -- Li Zhaoxing
I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation. -- Cate Shortland
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. -- Leopold Kronecker
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. -- A. O. Scott
The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'. -- Jon Elster
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made. -- Ramana Maharshi

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