Quotes and Sayings About Examination
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You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
-- Alain Badiou -
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.
-- Andre-Marie Ampere -
It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.
-- Anodea Judith -
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.
-- Archibald F. Bennett -
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
-- Aristotle -
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 of the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.
-- Astley Cooper -
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'
-- Benedict Joseph Labre -
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.
-- Bernard Haisch -
Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
-- Catherine Crier -
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
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 -
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
-- David E. Kelley -
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
-- Edward Carpenter -
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
-- Elena Ferrante -
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 -
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 -
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke -
Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.
-- Gene Spafford -
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 thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.
-- George Armstrong Custer -
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 with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.
-- George Grenville -
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.
-- H. P. Blavatsky -
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 we live.
-- Hans-Georg Gadamer -
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 food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.
-- Harper Lee -
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of the fat metabolism, since by definition excessive accumulation of fat is the underlying abnormality. It so happens that this is the least work has been done.
-- Hilde Bruch -
To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment...a time to reflect and to resolve.
-- Howard W. Hunter -
I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
-- J. Edgar Hoover -
The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.
-- Jacques Vallee -
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
-- James Hutton
