I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. Thomas Jefferson
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. Ayad Akhtar
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. Alexis de Tocqueville
Painting is a science and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not a landscape be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but experiments? John Constable
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance-nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question. Wilhelm von Humboldt