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Definition of Inquiring |
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Inquiring
of Inquire Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind. Related Definitions: An, As, Curious, Disposed, Given, Inquire, Inquiring, Inquiry, Investigate, Mind, Of, To |
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Inquiring Quotations
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Thomas Jefferson The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. William Kingdon Clifford Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. Joseph E. Stiglitz It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. Charles Sanders Peirce The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. Felix Frankfurter |
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Inquiring Translations
inquiring in German is Anfragender, anfragend |
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