Quotes About Examination

He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory in refrigerators. He eaves drops on conversations at public phone booths. He reads murder victims' mail.

Is it painful? the groundskeeper asked. I am asking for science.

It is possible that the chauffeurs of Moscow are very rich and happy people, but they are necessary, since it is difficult for a foreigner to get a driver's license. One correspondent took his examination for a license, but he failed on the question, "What does not belong on an automobile?" He could think of many things that did not belong on an automobile and finally picked one, but he was wrong. The proper answer was "mud.

Most people don't read the details. It's the details that astonish me.

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identifications and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

What is true never fears investigation; what is false... fears everything.

In subjective and objective ways,others judge our actions,attitudes,and performance.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

I have examined you long enough. I have read your heart, and written out your secrets! You are but a shell-the shell that holds a corrupted and sinful heart. He shall live; you shall die!

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Human brain is the most outstanding object in world. It functions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It functions right from the time we are born, and stop only when we enter the examination hall.

If you work in a hospital, you cant easily fake call in sick to work. Oh, you're sick? Well why dont you come in to work and we'll have a look at it.

But in a still life, there is no end to our looking, which has become allied with the gaze of the painter; we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.

The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

Excuse me, " she said, her voice tight. "But if I'd known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!