Test Quotes - page 3

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him. View quote
Václav Havel
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. View quote
Vitruvius
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ... View quote
J. William Fulbright
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. View quote
Frank Herbert
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. View quote
Aristotle
"How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. View quote
Milan Kundera
Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. (Albert Einstein)
The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. View quote
John Holt
He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God. View quote
Colum McCann
In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. View quote
Robert Sternberg
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. View quote
Robert Sternberg
And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? View quote
Robert Sternberg
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people, we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. View quote
William Boyd
The evolutionary explanation for origins, although impossible either to prove or to test scientifically, is nevertheless defended by its proponents on the basis that it is the only explanation which is naturalistic, not involving the 'supernatural' element of a divine Creator. View quote
Henry M. Morris
Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain. View quote
Junot Diaz
Evolution's logical, unlike religion. Even the Church will agree with that. You have to take religion on faith and you can't test it by common sense. (Lester del Rey)
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. View quote
Wendell Willkie
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. View quote
Elizabeth Drew
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. View quote
Francis James Grimke
My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection. View quote
Luc Montagnier