Quotes About Best Examinations

#1. I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

Winston S. Churchill

#2. Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform.

Olivia Newton-John

#3. If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

C.S. Lewis

#4. My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

Olivia Newton-John

#5. In my opinion," said the Superintendent slowly, "an arm-chair review of a case is often far more profitable than any number of enquiries and cross-examinations. You get a better perspective. More wood. Fewer trees.

John Bude

#6. I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

Tom Hanks

#7. Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

Brian Blessed

#9. On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung.
Knowledge is the death of research.
Nernst's motto.

Walther Nernst

#10. the late 1940s, hospitals in many states set up abortion committees to which a woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy could appeal.9 It was a humiliating process, which could involve multiple physical examinations and interrogations by unsympathetic doctors.

Katha Pollitt

#11. The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say I don't know the answer!

Jerome Lawrence

#12. Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Charles Handy

#13. Since when has cheating in examinations become Nigerian?

Sunday Adelaja

#14. After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!' Upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face that Yes was wrong, cried out in chorus, 'No, sir!' - as the custom is, in these examinations. 'Of

Charles Dickens

#15. Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Oscar Wilde

#16. When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

Helen Keller

#17. To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others

Samuel Johnson

#18. Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

Morris Kline

#19. I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Benjamin Franklin

#20. The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#21. What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Virginia Mae Axline

#22. But what is the point of education at all? Is it merely to cultivate the capacity of memory, passing examinations and getting a job and all the rest, or is education something entirely different? Something more!

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#23. If you don't do any self-examinations or see a doctor ever, you'll live forever. That's how you do it. The diagnosis is what gets you. You just have a don't ask, don't tell policy with any and all bodily functions.

Janeane Garofalo

#24. Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows ... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

Geena Davis

#25. We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Freeman Dyson

#26. Examinations consist of the foolish asking questions the wise cannot answer

Oscar Wilde

#27. And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#28. I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word.' The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it.

Erik Larson

#29. In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

Oscar Wilde

#30. Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.

Jean Webster

#31. 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

#32. Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Edward Carpenter

#33. Students should not feel as if they had missed the boat if they failed examinations and should be presented with more opportunities to further their studies.

Joseph Muscat

#34. Steele found, for example, that if he could convince women who took difficult mathematics examinations that everyone connected with the test assumed they would perform as well as men, that they did.

Ken Bain