Scrutiny Quotes · Page 4

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

— Carl Sagan

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

— Richard Cushing

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

— Fisher Ames

I understand the scrutiny; it's part of the job. And I don't want to be famous and can't be mates with the…

— Ed Woodward

The fixation on preserving our faces is laughable but it also seems almost logical given societal pressure and scrutiny.

— Angela Scanlon

I think part of being in the public eye is getting recognized and dealing with positive and negative scrutiny.

— Tim Howard

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example…

— Edward Snowden

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and…

— Steven Pinker

[Donald] Trump continues to dismiss those concerns though, even as some Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are making the case that Trump's business…

— Chuck Todd

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny…

— James Surowiecki

I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would…

— Christopher Phillips

I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend…

— Madhuri Dixit

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either…

— Maxwell Maltz

Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so…

— Amanda Marcotte

I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you…

— Chris Rock

Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing…

— Michelle Malkin

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to…

— John Locke

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to…

— Matthew Perry

The underlying reason for convergence seems to be that all organisms are under constant scrutiny of natural selection and are also subject…

— Simon Conway Morris

The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by…

— Rachel Maddow

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for…

— Kwame Nkrumah

The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have…

— Adam Cohen

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.

— Jemima Khan

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

— Anat R. Admati

My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.

— Urmila Matondkar

I've always been under scrutiny. But I used to just not really pay attention to what people said.

— Madonna Ciccone

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

— Henry Peach Robinson

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been…

— Donald Trump

Investment by any foreign company in any element of the U.K.'s Critical National Infrastructure should receive careful scrutiny.

— Dominic Grieve

I have been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.

— Caster Semenya

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

— Suzanne Fields

If I'm not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don't write about it.

— Caroline Calloway

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

— Stephen Hawking

Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

— Barack Obama

I've had so much scrutiny over the way I speak, I've learned to ignore all the noise but at first it was…

— Dorit Kemsley

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.

— William Cowper

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

— Chanakya

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

— Margaret Halsey