Examination Quotes

• Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

  

  Jane Austen
  • God
  • Conduct
  • Severe

• In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

  

  Walter Alexander Raleigh
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Wish

• Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.

  

  George Jackson
  • Victim
  • Examination
  • Immunity

• We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Secret
  • Spring
  • Examination

• I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Life
  • Money
  • Create

• The witnesses who testified before the grand jury were never subjected to cross-examination or impeachment by the defense

  

  Thomas Mesereau
  • Defense
  • Witnesses
  • Subjected

• If there is contained in the works of Karl Marx an admonition to his followers to make life hard for themselves and to add to the almost insuperable difficulties attendant on social reform the handicap of offensive personalities, it has escaped my cursory examination. Nevertheless, in all the countries I have visited, and in the United States where I properly belong, the so-called Reds have conspired, perhaps unwittingly, with reactionary traitors and die-hards to place blame on Communists for all of man's ineptitudes and Nature's sorrows.

  

  Elliot Paul
  • Blame
  • Sorrows
  • Personalities

• If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

  

  William H. Ginsburg
  • Given
  • Would
  • Telling

• By not first explaining the bones, anatomists delay the inexperienced student and, because of the difficulty of the subject, deter him from a very worthy examination of the works of God.

  

  Andreas Vesalius
  • Bones
  • Subject
  • Examination

• In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.

  

  Chase Twichell
  • Pain
  • Grief
  • Marital

• If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

  

  Herodotus
  • Choose
  • Examination
  • Proposition

• In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Observation
  • Experiments
  • Examination

• Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Opinions
  • Prejudice
  • Examination

• Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather than representing a scientific achievement, this probably represents a flaw in our definition.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Achievement
  • Computer
  • Conclusion

• Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Code
  • Worrying
  • Obsessive

• Among the Spartans all newly born children were subject to a careful examination or selection. All those that were weak, sickly, or affected with any bodily infirmity, were killed. Only the perfectly healthy and strong children were allowed to live, and they alone afterwards propagated the race.

  

  Ernst Haeckel
  • Children
  • Race
  • Killed

• The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Errors
  • Examination
  • Route

• I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.

  

  Denton Cooley
  • Experience
  • Confidence
  • Reasons

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

  

  Arthur Tappan Pierson
  • Truth
  • Views
  • Examination

• Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

  

  Catherine Crier
  • Ability
  • Individual
  • Rude

• Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

  

  Gerald of Wales
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Answers

• Rigorously investigated and fearlessly reported, A Crime So Monstrous is a passionate and thorough examination of the appalling reality of human bondage in today's world. In his devastating narrative, Ben Skinner boldly casts light on the unthinkable, yet thriving, modern-day practice of slavery, exposing a global trade in human lives. The abuses detailed in these pages are repugnant, but there is hope to be found: by giving voice to the victims, Skinner helps restore their dignity and makes crucial strides toward closing this shameful chapter in history.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Examination
  • A Crime So Monstrous
  • Human Bondage

• I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

  

  Simon van der Meer
  • Examination
  • Gymnasium

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