Best 12 quotes in «inspection quotes» category

The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

If all that one sees is a tiny speck of perspective in the larger scheme of things. And each perspective is made alive by the amalgamation of learning. And learning is a mere accumulation of skill and knowledge : both deriving from Truth. And Truth is not absolute but more of a figment of one's imagination made apparent to the senses. Then all, or for the most part, is fiction.

By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.

Each reaction we have is there to inspect us and reveal our own nature to ourselves and for ourselves; it is never about others.

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking