Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Many students fail examinations not because they don't know anything but because they lack confidence to prove that they know anything or… — Asuni LadyZeal Copy Share Image
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively,… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination… — Robert P. McCulloch Copy Share Image
Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
