Examination Quotes

310 Examination quotes by 248 unique authors

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of… — Geena Davis
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger. — William James Mayo
Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified. — Marvin J. Ashton
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health… — Jim Keith
If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't… — Alexander Kotov
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. — Errol Morris
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of… — G. H. Hardy
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago — Siegbert Tarrasch
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. — M. Russell Ballard
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the… — Ishmael Reed
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder. — David Hume
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The… — Myron Tribus
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always and only reflections… — Marya Hornbacher
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series… — Joseph Addison
My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my… — Henry Adams
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which… — Victor Hugo
Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby… — Harper Lee
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. — Francois Fenelon
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. — Louis Nizer
I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough… — Paul Nurse
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this… — James Lipton
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised… — Frederick Sanger
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. — Mark Udall

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