Examination Quotes

310 Examination quotes by 248 unique authors

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its… — Samuel Johnson
Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy. — Richard Doll
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not… — Samuel Johnson
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution… — E. O. Wilson
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. — Robert Motherwell
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds… — George Grenville
The achievement of happiness requires not the ... satisfaction of our needs ... but the examination and transformation of those needs. — Unknown Author
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. — Simon van der Meer
It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers. — Anodea Judith
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us… — Unknown Author
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility and revenge. He… — Jeff Abbott
Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to… — James Hervey
The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. — Richard Cushing
A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to… — James Keller
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with… — Francis Maitland Balfour
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the… — Gerald of Wales
...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought… — Max Muller
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action. — Immanuel Kant
Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. — Pope Francis
In one of his puckish moods Saul talked the president of a university into letting him anonymously take an examination being administered to candidates for… — Nicholas von Hoffman
Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required… — Elizabeth Lesser
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I… — Emil Zatopek
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. — David Bronstein

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