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Quotes About Examination

Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning.
~ Wallace Stegner
1. The first partner in the meeting is the text.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Being willing to question is one thing; questioning well and effectively is another.
~ Warren Berger
The supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.(1)
~ Westminster Assembly
Researchers have applied diverse methods to examine the connection between thinking and self-control. Some have addressed it by asking the correlation question: If people were ranked by their self-control and by their cognitive aptitude, would individuals have similar positions in the two rankings?
~ Daniel Kahneman
I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
~ Dave Barry
the picture, how many people are chasing the girl? 2. What is the girl carrying? 3. Does the girl have both her feet on the ground? 4. What are the man and woman holding? 5. Is the girl wearing socks? 6. Is the girl wearing polka-dotted shorts?
~ David A. Adler
just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …
~ David Baddiel
documentaries
~ David Baddiel
What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.
~ James Dashner
In the scientific world, "fear" is usually called "skepticism.
~ James Fadiman
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can only be true by accident. A faith worth having is faith worth discussing and testing.
~ James Luther Adams
Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it.
~ James Marcus Bach
examen." Essentially a review of the day, it helps you see where God is active in your daily life.
~ James Martin
I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.
~ Dorothy Parker
When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well.
~ Douglas Adams
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.
~ Douglas Adams
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.
~ Agatha Christie
What are you doing, Poirot?" "I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.
~ Agatha Christie
The mind is confused? Is it not so? Take time, mon ami. You are agitated; you are excited—it is but natural. Presently, when we are calmer, we will arrange the facts, neatly, each in his proper place. We will examine—and reject. Those of importance we will put on one side; those of no importance, pouf!"—he screwed up his cherub-like face, and puffed comically enough—"blow them
~ Agatha Christie
The mind is confused? Is it not so? Take time, mon ami. You are agitated; you are excited—it is but natural. Presently, when we are calmer, we will arrange the facts, neatly, each in his proper place. We will examine—and reject. Those of importance we will put on one side; those of no importance, pouf!"—he screwed up his cherub-like face, and puffed comically enough—"blow them away!" "That's
~ Agatha Christie
How often is tittle tattle, as you call it, true! And I think if, as I say, they really examined the facts they would find that it was true nine times out of ten! That's really just what makes people so annoyed about it.
~ Agatha Christie
The mind is confused? Is it not so? Take time, mon ami. You are agitated; you are excited—it is but natural. Presently, when we are calmer, we will arrange the facts, neatly, each in his proper place. We will examine—and reject. Those of importance we will put on one side; those of no importance, pouf!"—he
~ Agatha Christie
In a case like this we have to take everything into account,' he said, noncommittally.
~ Agatha Christie