Top 122 Examine Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Examine Quotes from famous people such as Terence Trent D’Arby, Alexis Carrel, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, Richard Rohr, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you’re talking about and examine it. And usually they’ll swallow it.
Terence Trent D’Arby
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
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson
When ‘happiness’ eludes us – as, eventually, it always will – we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Richard Rohr
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Alex Campbell
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Paulo Freire
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Ian Anderson
When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.
Robert Lanza
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself – of SOFA – and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
Howard Baker
We need to look at the totality of the things that we’re labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that’s done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.
Cory Booker
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
Octavia E. Butler
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.
Charles Albert Gobat
There’s so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that’s the role of the satirist – you have to examine your own country and say, ‘look!’
Carl Hiaasen
What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.
Townes Van Zandt
Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone’s motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone’s Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.
Gary Ackerman
While I feel it’s important for films to examine our society, I don’t particularly like watching the films that do it.
Taylor Sheridan
NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.
Marc Garneau
I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.
Jim Webb
When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
Adoniram Judson
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
Robert Caro
The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it’s really the talk for those who have.
Kathy Acker
If a ruler of men wants to put an end to vice, he must examine the correspondence between form and name and look to see how what is said differs from what is done.
Han Fei
It’s nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character’s desires and goals.
Michael McKean
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
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
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
Dodd-Frank greatly expanded the regulatory reach of the Federal Reserve. It did not, however, examine whether it was correctly structured to account for these new and expansive powers. Therefore, the Committee will be examining the appropriateness of the Fed’s current structure in a post Dodd-Frank world.
Richard Shelby
My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function – like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.
Wayne Shorter
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
Marquis de Lafayette
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We don’t know how many planets we’re going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn’t mean it’s not there. This may be very tricky.
John M. Grunsfeld
Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.
Marie Kondo
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We’re going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs – now or in the future.
John B. Larson
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
At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I’d had no period in my life where I’d consciously tried to develop my own theology.
Mahershala Ali
A novel wouldn’t be a book if there weren’t some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
Ned Vizzini
I think every leader has to be willing to examine their own biases.
Maya Wiley
There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That’s the only time that I’m relaxing. It’s the only time I really get to examine myself.
Jessica Simpson
Do the Right Thing’ was really the first movie I’d seen that not only entertained me – it made me laugh and I felt suspense – but it also really made me examine the world that I lived in.
Ryan Fleck
I don’t like taboo subjects and I don’t like elephants in the room. If there’s an elephant in the room, I really want to absolutely examine it.
Frank Skinner
A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner
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
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
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between you and the devil, or between you and the dictator, or between you and the kind man.
John Kani
Use your imagination, and you’ll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Mark Haddon
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
Blaise Pascal
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.
Martin Chemnitz
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been used as an effective lens through which to examine the actions business can take toward ensuring mutual long-term well-being and sustainability.
Klaus Schwab
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley
Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.
Robert Brady
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