Quotes About Reexamination

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

Normally, routine is the common element of daily life everywhere, the element that prevents man from reexamining his circumstances, because human beings are creatures of habit. People become accustomed to, and learn to live with, not only good things but also those that are – even in their own eyes – undesirable.

When we discover that someone we trusted can be trusted no longer, it forces us to reexamine the universe, to question the whole instinct and concept of trust. For a while, we are thrust back onto some bleak, jutting ledge, in a dark pierced by sheets of fire, swept by sheets of rain, in a world before kinship, or naming, or tenderness exist; we are brought close to formlessness.

A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.

I have come to long not to see new places but to return and know the old ones more deeply, to see them again.

Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in a charming sort of way. In short, I am all the selfs except selfless. Yet every so often I run across a force of nature that shakes my sublime self-centeredness to its very roots. Something that tears through the landscape like a tornado, leaving nothing but ruin and reexamination in its wake.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.

We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there?

In some of these cases, I found that I could not defend my beliefs adequately and needed to change my opinion. In others, I was able to reaffirm my convictions with real confidence. The point is that reexamining these basic beliefs was painful, sometimes agonizingly so. It was not a purely intellectual effort, but involved some of my deepest emotions. It challenged my sense of myself, since I had closely identified some of these beliefs with who I was and what I stood for.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.

On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.

I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.

I've rejected certain books, then gone back later and loved them.

The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted.

the fact that I left the faith is somehow seen as threatening, at least among people who have a gnawing suspicion, which they never explicitly acknowledge to themselves, that their own faith may need to be reexamined.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Historical Interpretation: Judgment Under Uncertainty," Amos had called it. With a flick of the wrist, he showed a roomful of professional historians just how much of human experience could be reexamined in a fresh, new way, if seen through the lens he had created with Danny.

I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different than feminism. It feels like this mass reexamination of the stories we're being told.

we consider the religion a lost cause anyway).

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

You're making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide.

You're making me rethink my stance against cold-blooded homicide.