Examination Quotes

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

  Errol Morris

  Errors, Understanding, World

  "Belief". Errol Morris' foreword to the book "The Secret Parts of Fortune" by Ron Rosenbaum, www.errolmorris.com. January 2000.

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Law, Justice

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  John Pople

  College, Awards, October

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• 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.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Buddhism

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• 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

  Men, Bidding, World

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

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Self, Deception

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• It is necessary to do a very thorough examination of your life and to discover whether the people in your life, no matter how much you love them, are using you or abusing you.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Matter, Gaining Power

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• Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

  Francois Fenelon

  Self, Faults, Charitable

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• Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Learning, Men, Gentleman

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.24, Macmillan

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Out, Each Day, Lines

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• Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

  Peter Hammill

  Art, Lying, Thinking

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• After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

  Frederick Sanger

  Teacher, Years, Class

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• I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

  Paul Nurse

  Memories, Enough Time, Poor

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• The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  Trends, Medical, Study

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Simon van der Meer

  Finals, Gymnasiums, Sections

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

  Balthus

  Struggle, Self, Criticism

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

  Edward Carpenter

  Doe, Originality, Great Success

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

  Daniel Starch

  Wise, Witty, Marketing

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• 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.

  Julien Benda

  Past, Men, Would Be

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.197, Transaction Publishers

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

  Victoria Gomez Cima

  Congratulations, Careers, Found

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• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Self, Long, Way

  Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.315, MIT Press

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

  M. Scott Peck

  World, Painful

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Truth

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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

  W. C. Sellar

  Writing, Paper, Sides

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