A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my feelings, my convictions, my understanding of the world, and testing whether they're really true. So that when you hang your holster up, you can make a judgment on whether you have any integrity at all. That's what I care about. That's why I wrote it. If I can't write that poem, then I've got it wrong somehow.
I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!
The unlived life isn't worth examining.
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.
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information
I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their heritage and their traditions, but I think that they now, as they move forward, will have to start examining these traditions and these practices to see whether or not change is appropriate.
This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.
That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good. ' That seems to me a simple moral equation and one you don't have to spend 60 hours of television examining. And I think the same thing is true with how we approached pornography or prostitution. Prostitution's been around since the Bible, and pornography's been around since about 15 minutes after the French guy invented the first camera.
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future. . . If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it m may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply the. . . My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures.
Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.
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.
Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
