Examined Quotes
200 quotes by 185 authors
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No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so…
— Russell Brand
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My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to…
— Steve Carell
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I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden…
— Jimmy Carter
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Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance…
— Nick Clegg
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As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system…
— Bob Dole
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
— Thomas Paine
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When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to…
— Ole Hallesby
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I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give…
— Alexander Hamilton
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What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.
— Denis Diderot
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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned…
— C.S. Lewis
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
— Joseph Heller
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at…
— Galileo Galilei
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated…
— Karl Pearson
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Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate,…
— Karl Popper
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,…
— Carl Sagan
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,…
— Humphry Davy
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal,…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that…
— Thomas Browne
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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,…
— Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
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