Examination Quotes
310 Examination quotes by 248 unique authors
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and…
— Maurice Strong
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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any…
— Ernst Haeckel
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If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment -…
— Tim Ferriss
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The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.
— George Polya
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Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and…
— Jane Roberts
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Math is the beautiful, rich, joyful, playful, surprising, frustrating, humbling and creative art that speaks to something transcendental. It is worthy of much exploration and…
— Unknown Author
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If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy…
— William H. Ginsburg
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
— Franz Grillparzer
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
— Elena Ferrante
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We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest We do not have to…
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
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There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or…
— David Hume
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid to…
— Walter Benjamin
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Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get…
— Simon Jenkins
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Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a…
— George Armstrong Custer
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The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he…
— Alexander Lowen
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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction…
— Julien Benda
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If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon…
— Simon Greenleaf
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In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation…
— Astley Cooper
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The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
— Daniel Starch
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I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked…
— Denton Cooley
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor…
— Hannah Arendt
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