All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?" — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Change comes with a matter of self examination and knowing when your wrong — Adrian Thomas Copy Share Image
“those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.” — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes,… — Dale E Turner Copy Share Image
“The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, it is my physic. — Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are two persons in the world we never see as they are, one's self and one's other self. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
“Whatever you have been told, re-examine life in the light of the truth.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. — Richard Cushing Copy Share Image
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The real change starts with the individual, because each person's action either heals the world, or further plunges it downhill.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When it's easy, it's great. But when something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
