Quotes of: Examination Keyword

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

Richard Gere

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

Irvin D. Yalom

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.

Grover Norquist

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from othe...

Mark Twain

Doctor: [Briefly examining Dega in a prefunctory manner] You're fine. NEXT! Dega: [Walking away] Must be better than I feel. Doctor: [Briefly examining Papillon] You're in wonderful shape. Papillon: How do you fail an examination like this? Doctor: N...

Papillon

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius

210Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine soci...

Victor Hugo

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Saudi Arabian

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

Trent Reznor

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

Trent Reznor

We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.

Life

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

Jodie Foster

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

Oliver Sacks

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Carl Sagan

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

Whoever buys a house must examine the beams; whoever wants a wife must look at her mother.

Chinese

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I t...

Adam Hamilton

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

William Shatner