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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
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
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. -- Edward Carpenter
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
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff. -- Tom Hanks
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
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
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 V. Jensen
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
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
I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives. -- George Hickenlooper
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer -- Oscar Wilde
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. -- Oscar Wilde
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. -- J. K. Rowling
My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations. -- Olivia Newton-John
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto. -- Walther Nernst
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
Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training -- Charles Handy
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
Unfortunately, there are very few facilities which offer courses in the arts. Not all the secondary schools offer the subject for CXC examinations. -- St. Lucia
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
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
Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice. -- Kehinde Wiley
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
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

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