Quotes About Examination

Sorting out which prejudices are to be criticized or rejected is not the beginning point of inquiry, but an end product, an achievement of inquiry.

We would do well to come to the Bible with these words ringing in our ears: 'You have heard it said . . . but I say to you . . .

A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.

Investigate my life, O God . . . See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

Chegará o dia em que você estará diante de Deus, e ele fará uma auditoria em sua vida — um exame final, antes que você ingresse na eternidade. A Bíblia diz: "Lembrem-se: cada um de nós comparecerá diante do tribunal de Deus [...]. Sim, cada um de nós terá de prestar contas de si mesmo a Deus".

This is the opposite of brainwashing. This is the opposite of Just believe and don't ask questions. He keeps inviting people to think critically, to examine, question, doubt, test, struggle. To own it for themselves. I came across this line in the New Testament: Test everything. I love that line. It's

But I don't know anything about investigative reporting." Alan looked at me for what I remember as a very long time. "Just remember," he said. "Turn every page. Never assume anything. Turn every goddamned page.

I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.

All kinds of maps or models also show, on examination, the personality or mental furniture of their creator, and, to a lesser extent, of the creator's society and linguistic system(s) — the semantic environment.

It appears that some domesticated primates, over the aeons, have not precisely evolved but have learned how to criticize and examine their own neurological programs. Members of this group cannot be mechanically predicted. They exhibit, at times at least, what looks like growth or creativity, although it is possible for Fundamentalist Materialists to insist that this "is really random behavior or behavior whose determinants had not yet been understood.

The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity.

And I'm not spying! I'm evaluating!" "It's the same difference!

What are you doing now?" Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. "Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

Though evasion rarely leads to joy; there is, one must admit, a sense of joy if one can dissect something, oneself included, with precision.

Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

an in-depth look reveals considerably more than a casual glance

In his examination of the young dial painters, he'd discovered a fact that was impossible to dismiss. The women were exhaling radon gas.