Examine Quotes

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. (Confucius)
If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. View quote
James Baldwin
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. View quote
Plutarch
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. View quote
Carl Jung
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. View quote
Walter Scott
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. View quote
Frances Mayes
[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. View quote
Daniel Dennett
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. View quote
Confucius
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. (Baron d'Holbach)
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. View quote
Nikola Tesla
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. View quote
Thomas Reid
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas. View quote
Alex Campbell
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life. View quote
Alex Campbell
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. View quote
Ed Markey
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. (Richard Neal)
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. View quote
Tim Holden
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel