Best Examined Sayings
200 Examined quotes by 181 unique authors
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The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
— Edgar Friedenberg
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The life which is not examined is not worth living.
— Plato
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My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the…
— Zeno of Elea
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When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a…
— Marguerite Young
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Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America,…
— Murray Rothbard
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Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined…
— David Hume
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of…
— Galileo Galilei
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After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
— Kabir
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Brothers and sisters, this is a divine work in process, with the manifestations and blessings of it abounding in every direction, so please don’t hyperventilate…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole…
— Lawrence Kohlberg
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If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then…
— Samuel Alito
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You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
— Mary Antin
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Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people…
— George Ryan
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The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and it has encouraged…
— Michiko Kakutani
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The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!
— Leonard Ravenhill
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The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones…
— Ronald Graham
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In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle…
— Robert M. Gates
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I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
— Nick Lowe
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
— Prince Philip
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
— Kate Smith
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Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.
— Michael Ruppert
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A veterinarian who naively gave PETA some of the animals, thinking they would find them homes, and examined the dead bodies of others, testified that…
— Nathan Winograd
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They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine…
— Herodotus
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