(324 quotes found)
“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 examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other”
Mark Twain
“The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice”
Carl Gustav Jung
“I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.”
Cher
“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”
Dalai Lama
“Time is the justice that examines all offenders.”
William Shakespeare
“If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman
“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
Samuel Johnson
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