I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.
— Sally Mann
Most Powerful Self Examination quotations
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
Some of the things you believe were never true.
They were someone else's fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him.
When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation.
It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough … and then just let go of all the rest.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
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.
You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side.
You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing.
The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.
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.
I don't write books because I have answers.
I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.
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.
Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections
Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?
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.
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.
Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
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.
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications.
Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.