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Quotes About Examination

I myself have always found that if I examine something, it's less scary. I grew up in the West, and we always had this theory that if you saw - if you kept the snake in you eye line, the snake wasn't going to bite you. And that's kind of way I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.
~ Joan Didion
The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than... but I have spent 20 years seeing how beautiful women are. Not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withstand.
~ Jodi Picoult
Well done. On your graduation success, I wish to congratulate you. Also, I wish to thank every student whom you copied from, to score such great results. Lets also thank the universities for their careless examination and easy question papers. Well done once again.
~ Unknown
The best way to see clearly is to observe the situation.
~ Unknown
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
~ Thomas Jefferson
You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.
~ Plato
The unexplored life is not worth living!
~ Plato
if one of us, or someone else, merely {12} says that something is so, do we accept that it is so? Or should we examine what the speaker means?
~ Plato
What matters most in doing the examen is to experience an environment of unconditional love in which you feel safe to own your experience and feel all your feelings.
~ Unknown
That's not what I asked," she said, a noticeable edge in her voice. "I asked why my father shot him." He sighed. She could have found gainful employment with the Spanish Inquisition, he thought ruefully; no chance of escape or evasion.
~ Diana Gabaldon
My doctors say I am very healthy.
~ Ehud Olmert
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
~ Samuel Butler
I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
~ Felice Picano
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
~ Immanuel Kant
It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. But in connection with the Bible, such scholarly restraints are somehow regarded as out of place.
~ J. Gresham Machen
Just remember, education (providing leadership for your kids as they learn life skills) is different from indoctrination (pouring ideas into their heads without inviting critical examination).
~ Unknown
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another's differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one's standards or one's opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
I've let it remain as it was to see what it is.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Incidentally, if you have never stalked someone close to you, I highly recommend it. Check out how it tranforms them. How other they become, and how infinitely necessary and justified the stalking becomes when you realize how little you know about them, how mysterious every aspect of them seems with an at a distance but close examiniation.
~ Dana Spiotta
Because the Advanced Placement Examination test is the required end-of-course examination, it cannot reasonably be viewed as a service or program for which a fee may be levied.
~ Ken Cuccinelli
A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.
~ Thomas Kinkade
We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.
~ Cory Booker
I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.
~ Edward Norton
It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.
~ Louis Aragon