Quotes About Examination

Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

If you meet a number of failures the causes of which are not known, look for something that is common for each failure and that is never present when there is a success.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

Quiero decir que le plantearé unas cuantas preguntas. Preguntas y nada más que preguntas.

He is dissecting poetry. It has become a cadaver.

He developed a particularly annoying way of ignoring the teaching during the term and then coming top in the examination.

The unexamined life is unavailable to the depressed. That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it. I hope that this basic fact will offer sustenance to those who suffer and will inspire patience and love in those who witness that suffering.

short written or spoken examination of a person's proficiency or knowledge:

Consciousness is the basis of both the examined and the unexamined life.

Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practises on others: in conversation we naturally diffuse our thoughts, and in writing we contract them; method is the excellence of writing, and unconstraint the grace of conversation. To read, write, and converse in due proportions is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

El negocio de la clínica no era curar a la gente de sus males, sino esculcarla hasta encontrarle nuevas cosas que curar.

Finally, it should be obvious to anyone who has read this far that Last Chance for Victory is a critical examination of General Lee and Southern leadership during the campaign. Therefore, it does not examine equally the role played by General Meade and his top subordinates; that task we leave to others.

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

bakmak bir seçme edimidir.

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.

slave dhows coming and slave dhows going away...On visiting the slave market, I found about 300 slaves exposed for sale...The teeth are examined, the cloth lifted to examine the lower limbs, and a stick thrown for a slave to bring, and thus exhibit his paces. Some are dragged through the crowd by hand and the price called incessantly..."[145]

An unexamined and untested belief system is not faith. It's only an inheritance you have been taught.

Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?" The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.