Examination Quotes

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

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

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

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

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.
David Bly

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

You’re never a loser til you quit trying.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Dr. Alexis Carrel

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
Rudolf Carnap

Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments—crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily—not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.
Karl Raimund Popper

The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.
Karl Pearson

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.

There is no end 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.”







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