“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.”
“What is true today may not be true ten years from now; there is more truth, more certainty in the inquiry "What if?" than in the definite "It is”
“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.”
“The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.”
“All truths wait in all things,They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,The insignificant is as big to me as any,(What is less or more than a touch)...”