Quotes About Examination

At some point in the late afternoon, preferably before dinner, while you are still experiencing the strength and rest of God, take fifteen minutes in quiet solitude to review and examine the day.

One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.

Come on, I want a real answer. That's the answer of a priest. I want the answer of a scientist

It turns out that it is possible to live an entire life—even an examined life, to the degree that I had relentlessly examined mine—and still not know the truth of oneself.

In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it's never examined or even noticed by anyone. It's like the sound of blood rushing through your veins—you hear it so constantly that you don't hear it at all.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say--and said it (so far as the women were concerned) at great length...

This direct perception, this simple and steady looking-upon a thing, is intuition; not any mystic process, but the most direct examination possible to the human mind.

Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwindled. There the carefully hoarded and enjoyed personality, our only treasure and at the same time our only defense must die into the ultimate truth of things, the black lightning that splits and destroys all, the positive, unquestionable nothingness.

I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out of blood and the inside of skin when light hit it, but I'd seen it so often, examined it so carefully, that it wasn't hard for me to call to mind.

Now then. Now then now then. What's all this, then?

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Tried to assess the situation.

Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

We put you to the test; we failed.

À la différence de l'analyse, qui se contente de décomposer un ensemble en ses éléments constituants et de la critique qui ne fait que juger, la déconstruction est un démontage consistant à mettre à nu ce qui dans une pensée, un texte, en constitue le point aveugle, impensé - encore un terme issu de Heidegger.

I'd say ye can't know what code ye live by until it's tested.

McGregor had another look at each of the boats, as though he might have failed to notice the first time that one of them was actually fine. They remained consistently jiggered. Short of sticking one of the outboards up his arse, lying on his back and opening his legs, it looked like he was here for the duration.

Personal transformation will occur if we are willing to question and examine every value we hold, and to be ready to see things differently. While reading this text, one will find his/ herself undertaking the challenge of recognizing the difference between beliefs that are rooted in fear and guilt, and those that incorporate love and forgiveness.

What have you done?

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.

This is the Government Educational Service. Your son, Richard M. Jordan, Classification 600-115, has completed the Government examination. We regret to inform you that his intelligence quotient has exceeded the Government regulation, according to Rule 84, Section 5, of the New Code.