There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. Walter Scott
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. James Baldwin
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew. Frances Mayes
[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. Daniel Dennett
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. Alexis Carrel
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald