Examining Quotes - Page 9

• I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one's convictions to frequent scrutiny.

  Christopher Phillips

  Honesty, Quality, Sincerity

  Christopher Phillips (2002). “Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy”, p.19, James Clarke & Co.

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• Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible.

  M. King Hubbert

  Science, Rocks, Two

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• Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Thinking, Evil

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Isaac Watts

  Believe, Men, Parent

  Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174

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• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  Bill Burr

  Country, East, Chance

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.

  Jane Goodall

  Grief, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

  Henry Fielding

  Fear, Justice, Faults

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.91

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• The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

  Jo Coudert

  Confidence, Quiet Moments, Self

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

  Denis Leary

  Ideas, Band, Dysfunctional Family

  "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.

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• The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Government, Nsa

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• Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.

  Jo Coudert

  Running, Fashion, Love Is

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.156, iUniverse

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• But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Hands

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.96, TAN Books

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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• The unlived life isn't worth examining.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

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• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

  Dan Millman

  Life, May, Action

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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• A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

  Jane Jacobs

  Granted, I Have Learned, Folly

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.179, Vintage

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• But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.

  Stafford Cripps

  Air, Assumption, Increase

  Stafford Cripps's Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force, api.parliament.uk. July 30, 1934.

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• We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

  David Richo

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  David Richo (2008). “When the Past Is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage our Relationships”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are.

  Joan Robinson

  Motivation, United States, Moral

  Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

  Jim Costa

  Dog, Opportunity, Blue

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