Definition of Inquiry

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Inquiry

The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries.

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Inquiry Quotations

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Thomas Paine

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
Ambrose Bierce

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
Cleveland Abbe

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam

Inquiry Translations

inquiry in Finnish is kysely
inquiry in German is Abfrage {f}, Abfrage, Anfrage {f}, Erkundigung
inquiry in Italian is informazione, richiesta, richiesta, inchiesta
inquiry in Latin is consulatio, interrogatio

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