Top 1200 Examined Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.

For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

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

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

The cross is going to judge everything in your life: your eating, your drinking, your sleeping, your spending, your talking. Everything is cross-examined!

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a lot of archaeological materials in the hope of finding out.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.

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

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

Regulations for international accounting and funding will have to be examined to identify policies that inadvertently discourage institutional investors from putting their resources into longer-term, illiquid assets.

Emotions of the sould should be watched, regulary examined, and kept well balanced.

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

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

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

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

I can't begin to describe how humiliating it is for a law-abiding citizen to be cross-examined in a court of law for a crime he hasn't committed.

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

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

My name, my origins, my background and my experiences are what leveraged my success. The angle of the immigrant, through which I examined the reality in France, distinguished me.

It is normal to be under pressure in England and Italy when you arrive in the last two months of the season. Every manager is talked about, and their squad is examined.

Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.

I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing.

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.

Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.