Quotes with examination

  • Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
  • In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

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  • Bill Dedman A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • E. M. Forster As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But 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.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ruth Benedict If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Sir J. Walter Alexander Raleigh In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Integrity of the individual is what we're being judged for and if we are not passing that examination, we don't really have the guts, we'll blow ourselves up. It will be all over. I think it's all the difference in the world.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Judge - A law student who marks his own examination-papers.
    A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jack Canfield Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
    Jack Canfield
    American author and motivational speaker (1944 - )
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  • François Fénelon Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Balthus Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Lord Greville The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
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  • Ronald Reagan The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Buddha 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.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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