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Examine well your blood. -- William Shakespeare
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself. -- Michael Johnson
Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist. -- Thubten Yeshe
Examine other points of view as if they were your own. -- Deepak Chopra
Examine what you believe to be impossible, and then change your beliefs. -- Wayne Dyer
The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. -- Karen Marie Moning
Examine your heart and put away any distraction so you can worship God freely. -- Jim George
Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture. -- Shulamith Firestone
Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose. -- William Zinsser
Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. -- Tony Blair
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. -- Aldo Leopold
See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character? -- Confucius
Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross. -- Wayne Dyer
Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it. -- Anthony de Mello
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect -- Gautama Buddha
Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams. -- David Hume
Examine the platforms of both parties. Examine the character of both parties. Get down on your knees. Say, Lord, help me make this decision. And then go vote. -- Max Lucado
Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that. -- Shinjo Ito
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth. -- Frederick Lenz
Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind. -- Shantideva
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it. -- John Baldessari
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education. -- Sophie von La Roche
Examine your experience of the incarnation so far and realistically add up the moments of happiness and unhappiness and you tell me, oh somewhat vaguely nobly born, you tell me, what has it been like for you? -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear. -- Ayn Rand
Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher) I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow. -- Cher
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. -- Robert Caro
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. -- Marcus Aurelius
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. -- Unknown
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. -- Alexis Carrel
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious. -- Deepak Chopra
The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. -- James Baldwin
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. -- James A. Baldwin
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. -- Susan L. Taylor
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. -- Confucius
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members. -- Ban Ki-moon
If there is anything that 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. -- Carl Jung
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. -- Tim Holden
As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman. -- Alice Greczyn
Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together. -- Ban Ki-moon
I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in. -- David Henry Hwang
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. -- Muhammad Iqbal
But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it. -- Tom Hanks
I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there. -- Koren Zailckas
Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories. -- Seth Shostak
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? -- Jodi Picoult
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently. -- Vik Muniz
It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people. -- Ken Salazar
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. -- Elena Kagan
There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Always examine the dice. -- Groucho Marx
Let each of us examine his thoughts -- Blaise Pascal
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle. -- Stefan Molyneux
Eagerly examine the Scriptures daily for spiritual growth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Push it. examine all things intensely and relentlessly. -- Annie Dillard
I do not understand; I pause; I examine. -- Michel de Montaigne
To examine oneself makes good use of sight. -- Zhuangzi
Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely. -- Edward Albee
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself. -- Ajahn Chah
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies. -- Paulo Freire
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. -- Richard Whately
Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself -- Margaret Fuller
Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities. -- William Arthur Ward
Don't recall. Don't imagine. Don't think. Don't examine. Don't control. Rest. -- Tilopa
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. -- Walt Whitman
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. -- James Agee
Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes. -- Ayn Rand
Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time. -- Ahmed Zewail
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. -- Margaret Atwood
War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions. -- Richard Engel
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. -- Mark Twain
You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities. -- Ari Kiev
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. -- Walt Whitman
Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed. -- Richard Bandler
I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine. -- Michel de Montaigne
We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned. -- Michel de Montaigne
Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself. -- Ephrem the Syrian
I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally. -- Fritz Sauckel
To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others. -- Henry Blackaby
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. -- Cornel West
Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. -- Richard V. Allen
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. -- Plutarch
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways. -- Drew Goddard
I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual? -- Frederick Lenz
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. -- Damian Lewis
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you really examine your own opinions, you'll normally come up with a better one -- Ernst Happel
NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage. -- Marc Garneau
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. -- Buchi Emecheta
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. -- Frederick Sommer
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. -- Alexander Kotov
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. -- Samuel Johnson
Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs. -- Jay Lake
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. -- Leo Tolstoy
Trees ask us to examine how we live in the natural world, with one another, and intrapersonally. -- Greg Reitman
If you really want to examine your strength, see how many times a day you are disturbed. -- Rama Swami
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. -- Frances Mayes
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. -- Samuel Johnson
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. -- Eric Temple Bell
The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence. -- William J. Clinton
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. -- Edward P. Morgan
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. -- Blaise Pascal
Throwing up is natures way of saying you need to re-examine your idea of a good time. -- Dov Davidoff
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. -- Eric Temple Bell
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations. -- Louis J. Halle
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. -- Michel de Montaigne
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. -- Bill Watterson
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. -- Masiela Lusha
Love and truth are two tools you can use to examine how reasonable or unreasonable your sentiments are -- Constance Chuks Friday

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