Scrutinize Quotes

• If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

  Diane Arbus

  Reality, Way, Photographer

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• Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

  Douglas Pagels

  Distance, Lying, Compassion

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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Thinking, Fog

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  Jack Valenti

  America, Parent, Groups

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• If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.109, Booklassic

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• The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspiration, Greatness, Soul

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• No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

  Roy Barnes

  Thinking, Government, Citizens

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• The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Light, Quality, Literature

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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• Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified.

  Andrew of Crete

  Religious, Jesus, Rain

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• Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

  Nathalia Crane

  Flower, Emptiness, Hummingbirds

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “Lava Lane, and Other Poems”

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• You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Decision, Government Spying

  "The Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, mic.com. June 9, 2013.

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• It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Believe, Responsibility

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• Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hate, Thinking, Long

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• The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Government, Principles, Morality

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

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• Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

  Peter Behrens

  Thinking, Looks, Appearance

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• It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

  John Calvin

  Men, Faces, Firsts

  John Calvin, Mark DeVries, Kirk Freeman (1999). “Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.15, B&H Publishing Group

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• A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Mistake, Pedestal, Firsts

  Simone de Beauvoir (1977). “Force of circumstance”

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• If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.

  Irvine Welsh

  Sorry, Media, Cheerleader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.

  William Godwin

  War, Character, Men

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• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  Macklemore

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

  Audre Lorde

  Truth, Writing, Language

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.43, Crossing Press

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• ...we must first scrutinize thoroughly anything appearing in our hearts or any saying suggested to us. Has it come purified from the divine and heavenly fire of the Holy Spirit? Or does it lean toward Jewish superstition? Is its surface piety something which has come down from bloated worldly philosophy? We must examine this most carefully, doing as the apostle bids us: 'Do not believe in every spirit, but make sure to find out if spirits are from God'.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Philosophy, Believe

  "Conferences".

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• Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mother, Lying, Grief

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

  Irving Kristol

  Phones, Media, Lucky

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