- Nov 07, 2020
Examining Quotes
Lines on looking closely before judging.
These quotes describe the discipline of examining something carefully, whether a successful classroom, a person's strengths, or one's own thoughts, echoing broader reflections on life.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors' skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don't know if people know how complicated the issue really is.
- Elicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.
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- Nov 07, 2020