Test Quotes - page 2

Knowledge must come through action you can have no test, which is not fanciful save by trial. (Sophocles)
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Truth is what stands the test of experience. View quote
Albert Einstein
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. View quote
George Jean Nathan
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. View quote
Ralph W. Sockman
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. View quote
Charles Alexander Eastman
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. (William James)
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. View quote
Michelle Obama
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. View quote
Cicero
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
The universe is an intelligence test. View quote
Timothy Leary
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy-some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote. View quote
Ann Coulter
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. (Vittorio Alfieri)
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or an imagined future majority in favor of our view. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.