Examination
Definition: A detailed inspection or study.
Number of Quotes: 6
I would like to have been examined in history, poetry and writing essays. The examiners, on the other hand, were partial to Latin and
mathematics. And their will prevailed ... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know.
Winston Churchill
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Colton
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Walter Raleigh
There should be some professional exam for these analysts. Most of the time they talk through their backsides.
Alan Sugar
Examinations are of no value whatsoever. 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
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
Oscar Wilde
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