Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination. — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits… — Richard Jackson Copy Share Image
Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does… — Ray Birdwhistell Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance,… — Seth Copy Share Image
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine. — George S. Kaufman Copy Share Image
“We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.” — David Richo Copy Share Image
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking,… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections — Ryuho Okawa Copy Share Image
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses... — Randy Hamilton Copy Share Image
After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. — Vin Weber Copy Share Image
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? — Francis Arthur Freeth Copy Share Image