Examinations Quotes
35 quotes by 30 authors
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And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
— Victoria Gomez Cima
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
— William James
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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
— Edward Carpenter
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On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.
— Walther Nernst
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My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.
— Olivia Newton-John
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When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived…
— Choi Sung-bong
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
— C.S. Lewis
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The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness.…
— Terence McKenna
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Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their…
— Joseph Muscat
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
— Tom Hanks
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I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with…
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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