Scrutiny Quotes

• When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Men, Quality, Entering

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• We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Wise, Believe, Men

  "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.

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• Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Charity, Poverty

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• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Mean, Science

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Pain, Simple, Self

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• Ask courageous questions.
  Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
  Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
  Be aware of human fallibility.
  Cherish your species and your planet.

  Carl Sagan

  Answers, Courageous, Wonder

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• This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Government, Presumption Of Innocence, Generations

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

  Edward Bond

  Art, Reality, Literature

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• I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

  Andrew Bogut

  Basketball, Sports, Play Hard

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

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• I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

  Allison Williams

  Fashion, Crazy, College

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• We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Abuse, Invisible

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• Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

  Miranda Otto

  Media, Juggernaut, Kind

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• The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Problem, Printed, Presses

  "Planet Of The Apes: Interview With Helena Bonham Carter". Cinema.com Interview, www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

  Mario Monti

  Confidence, Government, Vote

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• Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Objectivity, Tests, Failing

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• By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Venus, Firmament, Profundity

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “The Works of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't mind scrutiny. What I don't like is lies.

  Donald Trump

  Lying, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

  Henry Peach Robinson

  Departure, Closest

  Henry Peach Robinson (1869). “Pictorial Effect in Photography: Being Hints on Composition and Chiaro-oscuro for Photographers. To which is Added a Chapter on Combination Printing”, p.198

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• It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Intellectual, Huge

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• Somebody's got to do it [being Donald Trump]. It's different. It's difficult. There are a lot of wonderful things about it, but always being under scrutiny isn't one of them.

  Donald Trump

  Different, Wonderful, Trump

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mistake, Math, Men

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• Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Ideas, Balance

  "Why We Need To Understand Science" by Carl Sagan, The Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Catholic, Matter, Dogma

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• I want more rules, more scrutiny, and to defend the country.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Want

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Successful, Wish, Together

  "Big interview: Paula Radcliffe". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2004.

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