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Quotes About Examination

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
~ Graham Greene
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
~ James Hutton
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
~ H. L. Mencken
A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.
~ Paul Kurtz
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
~ Aristotle
Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.
~ Richard Selzer
What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.
~ William A. Dembski
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
~ Martha Beck
Endless is the search of truth.
~ Laurence Sterne
There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
~ John Arbuthnot
I wanted my players to always be searching, especially for truth. I wanted them to know what they believed and be able to defend it. Truth will always stand the test of scrutiny.
~ John Wooden
I'm on a search for the truth.
~ Nancy Grace
The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!
~ Raheel Farooq
All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~ Tacitus
studying the rim for marks left by the weapon that had fired
~ Michael Connelly
levels of albumin and renal epithelial cells. These are clear signs of damage somewhere in the kidneys, bladder, or urinary tract. Most of the time it signals what is called clear cell renal cell carcinoma. This man likely had a tumor in one or possibly both kidneys, but of course we can't be sure, since we don't have him to examine." "Would he have known he had cancer?" Ballard asked.
~ Michael Connelly
On the contrary: the advantage of a role-reversal story is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses and conventional rhetoric.
~ Michael Crichton
Think for yourself along rational lines. Hypothesize, test against the evidence, never accept that a question has been answered as well as it ever will be.
~ Michael Lewis
Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.
~ Michael Monroe
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
I am the skeptic of skeptics.
~ Taylor Caldwell