The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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.
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only. . . opinions adopted before examination.
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago
. . . it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls. '
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by partaking of the sacrament is equally serious. The solemn moments of thought while the sacrament is being served have great significance. They are moments of self-examination, introspection, self-discernment. . . a time to reflect and to resolve.
Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.