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Ability is not always gauged by examination.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.
Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
The comparison between Harry Cohen and my grandfather is not one that bears close examination.
Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.
Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
It’s not only for unanswered questions that we seek knowledge but also for the examination of unquestioned answers.
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
Climate change is a process that typically is non-linear. Even upon examination, it lives in comparison with other moments.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.