Quotes and Sayings About Examination
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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 one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.
-- James Lipton -
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 to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
-- Johannes V. Jensen -
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
-- John Pople -
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
-- Jonathan Swift -
At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.
-- Josemaria Escriva -
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 studies.
-- Joseph Muscat -
Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that character to start an exploration of my own consciousness. Really though, any character that you can examine is just an examination of a part of your own consciousness.
-- Karen Walker -
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
-- Lafcadio Hearn -
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.
-- Louis de Broglie -
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 -
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.
-- Margaret Drabble -
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.
-- Margaret E. Knight -
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
-- Mark Udall -
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
-- Mencius -
Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
-- Nancy Reagan -
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 there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.
-- Nella Larsen -
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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 time to follow up things that really interested me.
-- Paul Nurse -
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
-- Pete Seeger -
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.
-- Peter Cameron -
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
-- Peter Hammill -
I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.
-- Pierre Trudeau -
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
-- Richard Cushing -
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
-- Richard Gere -
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it...
-- Saul Gorn -
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago
-- Siegbert Tarrasch -
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
-- Simon van der Meer -
An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.
-- Sir John Woodroffe
