Examining Quotes

Examining Quote of the day

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

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

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.

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.

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

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

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

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

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

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.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.