Quotes About Examination

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

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.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Critical play is characterized by a careful examination of social, cultural, political, or even personal themes that function as alternates to popular play spaces.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

If you failed one test, there was a test to see why. I suppose they loved tests so much because they believed in free will.

Parklands are often positioned as apolitical, as "common" or public land that somehow eludes examination amidst the grit of property markets and land-use battles, but it is critical to understand parks as a central feature of colonial land logics, as aggressively regulating and disciplining land and its occupations.

A science without philosophy would literally not know what it was talking about. A philosophy without methodological exploration of phenomena would end up with nothing but formal truths, which is to say, errors.

If you want really to do your best in an examination, fling away the book the day before, say to yourself, 'I won't waste another minute on this miserable thing, and I don't care an iota whether I succeed or not.

When you looked closely at anything, you could almost faint, Jules thought, although you had to look closely if you wanted to have any knowledge at all in life.

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

you attract much more attention and a higher level of scrutiny than before.

Mrs. Norris

Official Wizarding Level

The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of society. Rather, the opposite is the case: to examine the *constitution* of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the *completed* structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history.

You know its going to be a bad day when you are having a prostate examination and you feel both of your doctor's hands on your shoulders!

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

When Bruno came back with a thick folder in his hand, Paul was standing in the small parlor, busy examining an animal sculpture standing on a windowsill. The animal, whose musculature was minutely reproduced, head turned back. It seemed worried, maybe it had heard something behind it, sensed the presence of a predator. It must be a goat, or maybe a deer or a hind, he didn't know much about animals.

By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was fantastic on what a thin basis they had proposed to build their life. Apart from physical attraction, there was nothing between them but fun and parties, and that was not entirely a taste in common. Life was like a jigsaw, but if you tried to fit the pieces together yourself, you generally got them wrong.

Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.