From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... investigation.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
2.
... investigation could
yield more satisfying and valuable ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
Since defective relations with other human beings have nearly always been the immediate cause of our woes, including our alcoholism, no field of investigation could yield more satisfying and valuable
rewards than this one.
3.
... investigation." --
Herbert Spencer
BB p.568(570),
Appendix II, Spiritual Experience
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance -- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -- Herbert Spencer
4.
... investigation were
still childish, emotionally sensitive, and ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
These distinguished men had the nerve to say that most of the alcoholics under investigation were still childish, emotionally
sensitive, and grandiose.
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