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  • If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

    Art   Home   Speak  
  • What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.

    Mean   Dedication   Self  
    M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
  • Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

    John Updike (2012). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, p.92, Random House
  • When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64
  • Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

    Religious   Mean   Self  
  • Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.

    "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.
  • Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

    Self   Novelists   World  
    "The uses of invention" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.
  • It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

    Moving   Ocean   Caring  
  • In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

    Jeremy Taylor (1851). “Readings for every day in Lent”, p.45
  • It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

    Self   Age   Use  
  • Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  • Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

    Wise   Wisdom   Night  
    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.18
  • The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

    Smart   Self   Perfect  
    "Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 23, 2001.
  • My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

    Cancer   Self   Wish  
  • Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

    Self   Usa   America  
  • The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

  • I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).

    Mean   Thinking   Self  
  • Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.

  • Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

    Pain   Writing   Self  
  • I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

    Men   Space   Omission  
    Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271
  • A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.

    Lying   Greatness   Men  
  • A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”
  • Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

    Hurt   Confused   Self  
    "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Closing words, 1968.
  • Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

    Self   Long   Examination  
    Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.315, MIT Press
  • I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

    College   Thinking   Self  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

  • Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

    Heart   Knowledge   Soul  
    William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.88
  • All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

  • To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.

  • There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.

    Spiritual   Self   People  
    "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.
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