Quotes About Examination

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.

The teenage years are the years to examine faith - the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it?

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.

I never liked the way the professor used the books — zeroing in on "the text," raking and raking, sifting and sifting it through narrower and narrower filters.

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

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.

He was well aware that he hadn't told Polworth the whole truth about his relationship with Robin Ellacott, which, after all, was nobody else's business. The truth was that his feelings contained nuances and complications that he preferred not to examine. For instance, he had a tendency, when alone, bored, or low-spirited, to want to hear her voice.

Laymen, in Strike's experience, were obsessed with motive: opportunity topped the professional's list.

I genuinely examine every new project from that standpoint. I ask myself, "What's this saying?" and also, "How could it be interpreted?" "Are there groups that might be harmed by this play?" – or production or whatever. "Does it deal in stereotypes or harmful tropes?

Credulity is not a virtue, and investigation is not a crime.

Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.

What a doctor I've got—he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then he hit me in the balls with a hammer.

Details. Evidence gathering. Surveillance. It's the basis of everything. You've got to settle down and watch long enough and hard enough to get what you need.

His toxicology was absolutely clear. The

They looked at Neagley. Dark hair, dark eyes, a tan. A good-looking woman. She smiled at them. Her forearms were on the table. Reacher noticed her nails. They were shiny with clear polish, and neatly filed. Even on the right, which she must have done left-handed. She wouldn't use a nail salon. She couldn't bear her hands to be touched. She looked at one guy, and then the other. The

SQUINTED through the

People see, but they don't look.

We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.

I started out as an atheist, utterly convinced that God didn't create people but that people created God in a pathetic effort to explain the unknown and temper their overpowering fear of death. My previous book, The Case for Christ, described my nearly two-year examination of the historical evidence that pointed me toward the verdict that God really exists and that Jesus actually is his unique Son. (For

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

whenever we have a new idea—instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct.