(36 quotes found)
“Cluelessness - There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.”
Larry Kersten
“Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!”
Monty Python
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
Albert Einstein
“I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.”
“One of the conditions (for escaping the stake during Inquisition in Spain) was that of stating all they knew of other heretics and apostates, which proved an exceedingly fruitful source of information as, under the general terror, there was little he”
Henry Charles Lea
“Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Had it been Europeans, the Inquisition might have gotten involved from Mexico.”
Rick Hendricks
“When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.”
Bible
“The cellophane is a modern addition to a technique that had its origins in the Spanish Inquisition.”
Tom Malinowski