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Quotes About Examination

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
~ William Winwood Reade
If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.
~ ASAP Rocky
The long, forensic interview really matters.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
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~ Faith Martin
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
~ Flannery O'Connor
If sin is not exposed, named, and renounced, then there has been no justice and God is dishonored.
~ Fleming Rutledge
To clarify Rear Window, I'd suggest this parable: The courtyard is the world, the reporter/photographer is the filmmaker, the binoculars stand for the camera and its lenses. And Hitchcock? He is the man we love to be hated by.
~ Francois Truffaut
all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
~ Billy Collins
When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.
~ Billy Graham
There cannot be a stronger proof of that genuine freedom, which is the boast of this age and country, than the power of discussing and examining, with decency and respect, the limits of the king's prerogative. A topic, that in some former ages was thought too delicate and sacred to be profaned by the pen of a subject.
~ blackstone sir william iii
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
~ Blaise Pascal
Processes without intelligent and rigorous scrutiny are not enough.
~ Bob Garratt
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to.
~ Harper Lee
You are amazed at all the things you know which are not on the examination paper.
~ Helen Keller
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
~ Frederick Sanger
At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.
~ Michael Leunig
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The key message is I'm always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be... examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.
~ Tan Cheng Bock
The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble true birth.
~ Socrates
Who seeks shall find.
~ Sophocles
Quien olvida fácilmente, pasa mejor el examen de su vida.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Physicians conduct an initial examination and detoxify the alcoholic in the hospital, then turn the patient over to paraprofessional counselors who are themselves recovering alcoholics. As
~ Stanton Peele
dexterity and problem solving but also a rigorous psychological examination, which included a Rorschach test. Many aviators would later say that passing the exam was the toughest thing they'd ever faced in the Air Corps.
~ Stephan Talty
Well," Carole said, turning in her seat, "after being fingerprinted and being given a lie detector test, I'll never complain again about going to the gynecologist.
~ Stephanie Bond