Examination Quotes

The more you look, the more you will see.

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

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

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it ... or because it is traditional, …. 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 conductive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

If you are fortunate enough to take a prisoner, keep him separate so that he may be examined.

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

Examine by every means each thing how it is clear, neither putting greater faith in anything seen than in what is heard, nor in a thundering sound more than in the clear assertions of the tongue, nor keep from trusting any of the other members in which there lies means of knowledge, but know each thing in the way in which it is clear.

The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.

I welcome a scrutiny of my entire record.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

After a careful examination I concluded that the story would not only repay the cost of publication in book form, but would yield some profit. Possibly I was helped to that conclusion by my firm conviction that the volume would prove a strong anti-slavery document.

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 as your guide..

Leave no stone unturned.

We want to put power to the test of adversarial review.

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

I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

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

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

This is a "test."

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.