Best Examined Wisdom
200 Examined quotes by 181 unique authors
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Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly. Raising it closer…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of…
— Richard Hornby
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How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend…
— Grover Norquist
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My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality…
— Gad Elmaleh
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Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
— Jules Verne
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Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot…
— John C. Wright
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The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and if the opinion…
— Samuel Freeman Miller
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We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we…
— Heinz Fischer
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of…
— Unknown Author
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Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault…
— Pontius Pilate
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Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.
— John Sherman Cooper
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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is…
— Gilbert White
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room…
— Sam Sheppard
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I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
— Louis Leakey
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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
— Mark Twain
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully,…
— Tom Baker
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Our Lord his book, the Bible is deep and broad. Great human minds have critically examined it, and thinking they have found flaws, they sometimes…
— Glen Rambharack
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Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail,…
— Ronald Harwood
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The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the…
— Marc Morial
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of…
— Russell Brand
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The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.
— Severus Snape
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Acts 17:11: Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures…
— Jesus
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I went to the doctors today cos I wasn't feeling well at all. My symptons were as followed as the doctor examined me.1. Need a…
— Josephine
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