Examine
To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.
To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.
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Examine Quotations
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus Aurelius
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
James A. Baldwin
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
Giacomo Casanova
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
Plutarch
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel
I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher Columbus
Examine Translations
examine in Afrikaans is ondersoek
examine in Dutch is onderzoeken, nakijken, examineren
examine in Finnish is tutkia
examine in French is examiner, examinez, sonder, examinons, explorer
examine in German is begutachte, untersuchen, untersuchen
examine in Latin is perlustro, probatur
examine in Spanish is indagar, auscultar, registrar, examinar, revisar
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