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Quotes About Examination

The theory lies in the complexity of the cases.
~ Timothy Mitchell
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
~ Tom Stoppard
history that seeks to exalt a nation's strengths without examining its shortcomings, that values feeling good over thinking hard, that embraces simplistic celebration over complex understanding, isn't history; it's propaganda.
~ Kevin M. Kruse
Details convince; they persuade us that the writer has looked closely at the world, and they bring us close to the world the writer is creating.
~ Kim Addonizio
What a way to go," he said. "Everyone putting your life under the microscope. What if we paid that kind of attention to people while they were alive?
~ Kjell Eriksson
To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As
~ Carlo Rovelli
To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known.
~ Carlo Rovelli
To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one which he has always known.
~ Carlo Rovelli
Rather than using pain as a motivator to accurately examine our lives, assume responsibility for our choices, and use our personal power for change, we often glorify the experience of suffering itself. Suffering is always unproductive when we're caught in the Victim Trap. For
~ Carmen Renee Berry
What was he doing that they had to kill him?" "Asking questions,
~ George R.R. Martin
A vague uneasiness; the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
~ Ugo Betti
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
~ Hart Pomerantz
Doctor, feel my purse.
~ Jane Ace
The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greek said, 'All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.'
~ Edith Hamilton
It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it.
~ J. Gresham Machen
He had to look.
~ J.R. Ward
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
~ John Piper
Leave no stone unturned.
~ Euripides
Examine thus yourself from every side. Note harmful thoughts and every futile striving. Thus it is that heroes in the bodhisattva path Apply the remedies to keep a steady mind.
~ Shantideva
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
~ Tacitus
The appeal of the theory was easy for me to appreciate, though; I too had devoted many an hour to examining flakes of gold through a microscope and can imagine how gratifying it would be to turn the fine-adjustment knob and see legible symbols come into focus.
~ Ted Chiang
I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
~ Colm Meaney
It's no fun being a specimen.
~ Dick Cavett