Top 428 Examination Quotes & Sayings

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

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

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

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?

I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

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

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

Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

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

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.

Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

Ability is not always gauged by examination.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.

The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.

If somebody comes up and says, "[Barack] Obama was born in Kenya," the story becomes, "Will Obama succeed in refuting this charge and then can we make these villains making the charge look like reprobates?" No examination of the allegation or examination of the issues.

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.

Because the Advanced Placement Examination test is the required end-of-course examination, it cannot reasonably be viewed as a service or program for which a fee may be levied.

The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.

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

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

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

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

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

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

Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.

I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

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

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

Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it.

Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

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

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

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

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

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

Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.

Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The same should happen in Britain.

Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue.

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

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

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