Quotes About Examination

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Endless is the search of truth.

In other words, my pot doesn't work? It doesn't have a pulse, he says. I have a pulse. Kimmie offers her wrist. Wanna check?

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

Science probes; it does not prove.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

history, when examined closely, always yields up people, events, and moral testing grounds more revealing than any but the greatest of novelists could invent.

Setting people examination papers measuring wisdom rather than learning would probably result in an immediate realignment of the hierarchy of intelligence – and a surprising new élite. Montaigne delighted in the prospect of the incongruous people who would now be recognized as cleverer than the lauded but often unworthy traditional candidates.

16 December. In his book The Poetics of Space (1958) the critic and philosopher Gaston Bachelard quotes the advice of a dictionary of botany: 'Reader, study the periwinkle in detail, and you will see how detail increases an object's stature.' 'To use a magnifying glass', Bachelard comments a little later, 'is to pay attention.' (From The Man with a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford.)

If the physical world were a novel, with the business of examining evil and good, it would not have the clear lines of Dickens but the shadowy ambiguities of Dostoevsky.

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

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.

Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.

Let's talk about the SAT. You got a 2280.

They examine me like I'm a cow at a 4-H auction. I try not to moo.

Let us go back a little farther and read on until we come to these words, for we must not seek to learn the whole meaning of the section, from the concluding parts of it, or, if I may so say, from the tail of the chapter.