Where did the phrase "inquiring minds want to know" come from? Who said it first?
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The phrase MAY have originated with the National Enquirer tabloid with a play on the spelling...'Enquiring' minds want to know.
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It's a quote from "Hamlet" by Shakespeare.\n\nWhat seems crazy at first glance (madness) may have a logical pattern or reason (method).
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it means in simple term curiosity
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I do. What was the phrase?
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What was the first question?
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Inquiring minds want to know (curiosity)
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i would think that this meant that the person in question was wanting to believe something even though others around him were sceptical... or maybe he was looking for something and he found an easy answer... \nhope this helps
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WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW
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you can never know if you were being didactic or rhetorical, even if no one gets your question. in fact you will never know if someone got your question unless they answer. yet, what is an answer but a response to your question, and a question being an inverted answer with the mark of a query.to provide this answer to your satisfaction  is perhaps to know and to get, and you must be the provider of the question so that the answerer can answer or get it. but how will the answerer know what the asker means? how will i know the meaning of the question? what does it mean to know and to get something? who/how must i BE to GET what you are asking? how will i know what to say? what does the sophiology of the underpinnings of epistemology consist of? sophistry is innately fallible explaining the bad rap, and when philosophy curves over, it too falls under the same beat. Cogito ergo sum is just one of a plethora of examples intertwining the soph with the ontological.
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It is a Funny Quotes or you can say One-liner thought.\ni think it is by "Fossel"
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Wikipedia does a good job of breaking down the essentials of any philosopher, in straight talk.\n\nHe eseentially was one of the first to question the physical reality of what we are and see - and identified a constant reality "unseen" physically. SOme say he began the idea of "theology, religion, spirituality", etc - through prose.
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Quote from Wikipedia:\n\nAlthough we do not have direct access to Confucius' beliefs, we can sketch out Confucius' ideas from the fragments that remain. Confucius (551–479 BCE) was a man of letters who worried about the troubled times he lived in. He went from place to place trying to spread his political ideas and influence to the many kings contending for supremacy in China. He was greatly concerned with how successful societies should work, how rulers should rule and how relationships should be maintained.\n\nMore on the website source listed.
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Good question:\n\nMaybe Society or people in general.  Also, if its a quote it could just mean that you dont know who originally said it.
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It comes from the Latin verb "quaere", which means to seek, to look for and which produced the noun "quaestio", meaning "question".  So in asking a question, we are looking for something.  An answer or a solution!
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Possibly your question has been questioned to determine the direction it's taking or the intent behind the question.  Sometimes a question is questioned because the answer'er may doubt the inquisitor's motives. On the other hand it could be due to a variety options with which the answer'er could accurately supply an answer and they want to gain more information to appropriately answer said question.
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The correct quote is\n\n"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre minds." \n\nIt was Einstein
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why would you want to know