Quotes About Examination

On 18 December 1772, the directors of the East India Company were summoned to the Houses of Parliament. There they were fiercely examined by General John Burgoyne's Select Committee, which had been set up to investigate EIC abuses in India, and particularly accusations of embezzlement and bribe-taking. Charges of corruption were levelled against several EIC servants

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

All error dreads the light of the word, and fears more to be examined by that, than a thief does to be tried before a strict judge.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

No matter how sensible-seeming or wild an idea, the smart thinker asks: Does it work? When put to the test, can its predictions be confirmed? Subjected to such scrutiny, crazy-sounding ideas sometimes find support.

It's the very process of looking at something that makes it beautiful.

On belief in miracles) - "The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense, who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

The danger comes in, in my opinion, when you believe someone because they're the leader of your church and supposedly they have an ear to God without examining what they're doing.

Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.