The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions from the detergent Mom always used to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other across every apparent political or ideological divide.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy the National Laboratories and the Department of Defense.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately but write from recollection and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face you should go home and examine your conscience.

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

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music to create harmony must investigate discord.