Quotes About Examination

El médico lo examinó con esa atención profesional que está visiblemente buscando la causa del mal, en las enfermedades de los padres. Después

Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.

Not surprisingly, they frisked me like they were taking a frisking exam. To get into the Royal College of Frisking. Five times, head to toe, mouth, ears, crotch, soles of shoes. They tore most of my clothes from my body, and left me looking like an opened Christmas present.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

So, whazzit dis time, cizzen?

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.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Hay un proverbio persa: "Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia". Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

Aprender a aprender significa examinar las suposiciones. Los relatos de Mulá Nasrudín cumplen muy frecuentemente esta función.

I walked over to the tiny trailer and noticed the locked door, bolted with a piece of barbed wire through the bolt. Inside the devastated trailer I carefully examined the inside of the door. This door was the only possible entrance point from the corral to the cramped interior of the trailer.

We then began a systematic sweep of the corral and surrounding area using the small portable instruments that were part of our tools of the trade.

No doubt about it. We've made a preliminary examination, and I don't even think we'll have to resort to blood transfusion. What saved him more than anything else were the makeshift bandages that were found on him. If it hadn't been for them he'd have been a goner long before he was picked up." This went over my head at the time. I didn't understand. I thought he meant their own bandages, the hospital's.

The real test of whether Scripture or tradition is our fundamental authority lies in our willingness to test those preunderstandings by further study of the Scripture, examining its teachings again in a literary-historical manner.

we all also possess preunderstandings, though we may not be conscious of them all. As we examine an issue or the text, it is helpful to consider how we are approaching the question and why. Sometimes it is dialogue with someone who thinks differently that helps us see why we see things the way we do.

Looking closer can make something beautiful.

Evidently it was an unusual and interesting virus for quite a number of doctors had come to look at her and sounded her heart and tapped her knees and done other curious and uncomfortable things. Barbie had lain supine and allowed them to do what they liked. Her body was not her own any more. If it had been her body, only, Barbie would not have minded so much, but 'the virus' had invaded her soul.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

examination of the lungs shows a frothy white substance," says Dr. Backmann. "This is consistent

we have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

I think I have never known anyone who led quite unexamined a life.