Re-Examination Quotes

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence .... a solitary precedent ... which has never been re-examined, can not be conclusive.

As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

We never invent new reasons to continue with a position when the original reasons are no longer available.

They made a fatal mistake in doing 'Psycho' again. Why do that? Why revisit something that stands for itself?

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning and devastating.

When a writer gets a second chance to look back on something, it's a great opportunity to say, 'Hey, this is really good, but we can do it even better.'

I was wondering if any of my faith was real at all, and I started to let go of a lot of things that I had learned and say, 'Maybe I just need to start over entirely with what I have learned about my faith.' And that's what I did.

I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

Skepticism is the lifeblood of scientific progress. By constantly asking whether there is a different answer, a better approach or an alternative view, scientists drive improvements and innovations that ultimately benefit everyone. It is not “antiscience” to be skeptical—it’s definitively pro-science.

Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.

I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

I love so-called movies that are bad movies, but 'Prometheus' is one of those movies that people are gonna come back around on in 20 years. There's gonna be midnight screenings of that thing.