Examining Quotes

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

  William Barclay

  People, Becoming, Should

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• An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Religious, Book, Years

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• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Two, Sound

  "Cosmos/ Encyclopaedia Galactica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.

  Ray Birdwhistell

  Communication, Being Alone, Men

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• I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

  Elena Kagan

  Wisdom, Truth, School

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

  James Burnham

  Emotional, Glowing, Color

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• In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Choices, Brutality

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape.

  Iris Marion Young

  Thinking, Numbers, Racism

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• Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Love, Life, God

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health--It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.

  Byllye Avery

  Religious, Perspective, Women's Health

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• The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  William Winwood Reade

  Curiosity, Expansion, Inquiry

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

  Benjamin Barber

  Taught, Students, Life Is

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• All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

  Alexander Kotov

  Jobs, Moving, Looks

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• But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

  Clive Barker

  Religious, Thinking, Needs

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• The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those that serve your goals, and carefully crafting new ones in greatest alignment with your desires.

  Sir Richard Bishop

  Life, Art, Goal

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• A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

  Mencius

  Heaven, Mind, May

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• Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Moving, Shadow, Trying

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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• Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Watches, Monkeys, Chess

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• Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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