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Quotes About Examine

If you do not search, you will not find.
~ Sam Mystery
The noble things and the just things, which the political art examines, admit of much dispute and variability, such that they are held to exist by law11 alone and not by nature.
~ Aristotle,
Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Come, Watson, we must really take a risk and try to investigate this a little more closely.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.
~ Shulamith Firestone
don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them.
~ Sidney Lumet
She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.
~ Sinclair Lewis
And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor at night.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It's unfashionable these days to notice that a great many human beings have had, and continue to have, experiences that they describe as interactions with such powers by way of the teachings and practices just mentioned, and so scholars in a baker's dozen of disciplines and more have busied themselves coming up with other things that religion must "really" be about.
~ John Michael Greer
As God's people examine the difficult decision as to where they should emigrate, it will be evident that European nations will not offer an acceptable relocation venue.
~ John Price
Scrutamini scripturas [Let us look at the scriptures]. These two words have undone the world.
~ John Selden
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when you absolutely have to. And the only way to know that you've done that is to talk about it, debate it, examine it, and make damn sure.
~ Barry Lyga
However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
~ Ed Markey
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
~ Carl Hiaasen
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
~ George Orwell
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
~ William Shakespeare
Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see.
~ Mark Twain
Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the idea that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position.
~ Audre Lorde
All beliefs are worth examining. The key is to notice your beliefs, and test them – not necessarily discard them.
~ Spencer Johnson
He was a curiosity at first, as many in that part of the country had never seen a Jew before. Numbers of people came from the country round about to see him, and he related in his old age of an old Quakeress who said to him, "Art thou a Jew? Thou art one of God's chosen people. Wilt thou let me examine thee?" She turned him round and round, and at last exclaimed: "Well, thou art no different to other people.
~ Stephen Birmingham
she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply
~ Stephen King
A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.
~ Henry Blackaby
provenance." The judge coughs and examines his notes. Paul murmurs to the woman director
~ Jojo Moyes