Quotes About Scrutiny

Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.

As a public official, when I take a position, I stand up to explain and defend it. I file annual financial disclosures, campaign finance reports, and have to face the scrutiny of public opinion.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

I don't think anyone's private life stands up to public scrutiny.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.

When you're a sports figure and people dislike you, they're going to look for the negatives.

More exposure leads to more judgment and negativity.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

In politics, you must never forget that everything is analysed.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes – an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly sceptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

The idea that religious beliefs but not others should receive special protection is bizarre: all types of belief should be open to scrutiny, criticism, parody, and potentially ridicule in a free society. Indeed

The watched watching the watcher.

In today's climate no one wants imperfection in their leaders. Once a flaw is dug out, as the press is hell-bent to do, it's maximized and twisted until it becomes a bigger issue than a man's record.

Part of the presidential job description is the absorption of public vitriol.

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.

And if someone should see, what matter they?

In reading, one should notice and fondle details.