Examination Quotes

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

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

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

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

Whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings...that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.

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

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

Having children made me go down a road of serious introspection and self-examination. I think it's informed and hopefully enhanced my creativity.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.

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

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.

To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination.

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.