Examination Quotes · Page 10

Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares…

— Josemaria Escriva

“Half of what students learn in school is useful only during examinations.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is…

— James Thurber

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war…

— Ruth Benedict

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard…

— Bertrand Russell

Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial…

— Gene Spafford

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the…

— Kehinde Wiley

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Life is a lifestyle, we have come to the world just for examination.”

— Saju

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my…

— Cheryl Strayed

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has…

— Mark Twain

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are…

— Blaise Pascal

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Exams should be given on either Facebook or on phone instead of sheets, ccuz today's students have more typing speed than writing…

— Anonymous

“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford Fading embers of the final Christmas test, No more the frantic angst of dawn, Now it is…

— Stewart Stafford

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is…

— Colman McCarthy

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a…

— James R. Lewis

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

— M. Scott Peck

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person…

— Andre Gide

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high…

— Terence McKenna

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are…

— Immanuel Kant

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was…

— Dave Barry

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything…

— Johannes Kepler

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world…

— Ralph Fiennes