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Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being. — Nikolai Gogol

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false. — Bertrand Russell

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on. — Charlie Munger

I would borrow the microphone and stuff it down the front of my pants, examining myself from every angle in the mirror — Augusten Burroughs

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch? — Wilhelm Steinitz

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A poem cannot be greater than the mind examining it. — Beryl Dov

No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside. — Haruki Murakami

Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. — Lauren Myracle

Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same. — Joanne Harris

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

A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied. — Allan Pease

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music. — Daryl Hall

More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow. — Stephen Covey

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot. — Ron Wyden

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted. — Stefan Collini

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

You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry. — Carl Sagan

After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate. — Vin Weber

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C.S. Lewis

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing. — Ram Dass

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue. — Stefan Molyneux

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. — Glenn Close

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop ... suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head. — Agatha Christie

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

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce

I feel him pause. On my vagina. Because he's touching my vagina as I accuse him of being into examining college girls. Help me. — Jana Aston

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. — William Winwood Reade

Please ta meetcha, kid. I'm Aahz."
"Oz?"
"No Relation."
"No relation to what?" I asked, but he was examining the room again. — Robert Asprin

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections — Ryuho Okawa

He was cross-examining my subconscious . — Ransom Riggs

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things. — Linda Cardellini

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

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. — Richard Russo

I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks. — Michael Pitt

Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States with the French Republic. METZ, October 12. - While examining — Various

If the frontline people do count, you couldn't prove it by examining the reward systems in most organizations. — Karl Albrecht

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. — Gene Tierney

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it. — Samuel Richardson

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it. — Matt Groening

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses ... — Randy Hamilton

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine. — George S. Kaufman

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer. — James Franco

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture. — Jennifer Echols

As J. C. Kromsigt said, The good seed cannot flourish when it is repeatedly dug up for the purpose of examining its growth. — Tullian Tchividjian

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. — Anne Tyler

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven. — Mencius

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly. — Damian Lewis

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within. — Kevin Henkes

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. — Clive Barker

I wind up stretched across the couch
still nodding with Sherlock Holmes
examining our crushed veins — Jim Carroll

Examining myself in the mirror above, — Lacey Silks

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? — Francis Arthur Freeth

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! — Adam Leipzig

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer. — Tamara Ecclestone

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo

He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will. — Shayla Black

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society. — Tim Hardaway

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen. — Samantha Power

Misunderstood some say. Perhaps it's the perception that needs examining! — Annette Whitaker-Moss

We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving. — Jay Woodman

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition. — Idries Shah

You can discover a person's true character by examining how their actions align with their words. — Janice Anderson

If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining? — Paul Kalanithi

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. — Mary Antin

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. — Pierre Bonnard

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. — Quintilian

We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living. — Adam Leipzig

( ... )while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining. — Robert McKee

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. — Vernon Howard

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from. — Katharine Weber

We are rarely in danger of examining to excess, especially when the subject is the shape of our own lives. — G.K. Chesterton

Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. — Douglas Adams

agent inside S.I.S. who had picked up Zalachenko's trail. Right now we're examining a large number of old personnel files." "But if the K.G.B. had — Stieg Larsson

You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience. — Michio Kaku

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves. — William Barclay

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about. — Milla Jovovich

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. — Justin Martyr

Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip. — Thubten Yeshe

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. — Jen Knox

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. — Allan Lokos

People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can. — Mark W. Boyer

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks

As a business you should probably be examining, hey, is this the type of message we want to send? — Chris Kluwe

Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus

This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others, — Plato

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed. — Marina Abramovic

Mused, examining her own stunning reflection — J.K. Rowling