A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Honore de Balzac

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

Bob Parsons

We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.

Charles Caleb Colton

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

Edmond About

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Mark Twain

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Omar N. Bradley

I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he's doing.

George Ryan

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

John Updike

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

Kate Smith

The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.

Susan Choi

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

Jennifer Nettles

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Susan Orlean

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Victor Hugo

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

Judah Smith

What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.