Examining Quotes
The cross is the great jewel of the Christian faith and like every great jewel it has many precious facets that are each worthy of examining for their brilliance and beauty.
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.
Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?
In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.
I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.
It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.
My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.
As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send?
I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.
After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.
We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.
I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people’s strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!
