Examination Quotes

310 Examination quotes by 248 unique authors

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is… — Thomas A. Edison
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it… — Jonathan Swift
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv. — Finley Peter Dunne
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a… — Oscar Wilde
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the… — James Randi
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things… — Albert Einstein
Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of… — Richard Hornby
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. — Trent Reznor
Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on. — Trent Reznor
Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a… — Solomon Northup
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. — Lalu Prasad Yadav
Macroeconomics is the analysis of the economy as a whole, an examination of overall supply and demand. At the broadest level, macroeconomists want to understand… — Alex Berenson
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This… — Michael Leunig
The duty of the grand jury is to separate fact from fiction, after a full and impartial examination of all the evidence involved, and decide… — Robert P. McCulloch
Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available… — Robert P. McCulloch
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men.… — Heywood Broun
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be… — Ronald Fisher
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear… — James Kirkwood
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. — H. L. Mencken
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an… — Mark Lloyd
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did. — Jay McInerney

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