Top Scrutiny Quotes

Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

Scrutiny Definition

(n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

(n.) An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.

(n.) A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.

(n.) An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.

(v. t.) To scrutinize.

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, befo...

The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless sk...

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a...

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to re...