Examination Quotes

• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

  E. M. Forster

  Jobs, Long, Would Be

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Education

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2003). “Krishnamurti on Education”, p.57, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

  Aristotle

  Humor, Tests, Bears

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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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• 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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• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

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• A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Great Day, Useless, Today

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.152, tredition

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• The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Work, Government

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

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Historical, Principles, Different

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• 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

  Experiments, Posts, Died

  Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.

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• Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

  Pete Seeger

  People, World, Kind

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• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Jobs, Careers, Acting

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• Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

  Blaise Pascal

  Law, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.110, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

  Ruth Benedict

  War, Bears, Merit

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• 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.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

  David E. Kelley

  Issues, Ethical, Social

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• I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

  James Lipton

  Art, Answers, Remember

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• The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.

  Peter Hammill

  Thinking, Enthusiasm, Becoming

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• I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  War, School, Artist

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• I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

  William Friedkin

  Wall, Character, Alternatives

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• There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

  Mencius

  Self, Delight, Sincerity

  Mencius, James Legge (1875). “The Life and Works of Mencius: With Essays and Notes”, p.345

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• 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.

  Gerald of Wales

  Thinking, Judging, Answers

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