Tests Quotes

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

I love to test boundaries.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.

I think Nevada is going to really be the first true test of whether or not these candidates have particular strengths in particular demographics.

The test before us as a people is not whether our commitments match our will and our courage; but whether we have the will and courage to match our commitments.

Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test.

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

I'd discovered you never know yourself until you're tested and that you don't even know you're being tested until afterwards, and that in fact there isn't anyone giving the test except yourself.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.

The only way to pass any test is to take the test. All tests on every level are always repeated one way or another until you pass.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

But when I looked at a lot of the questions they had on them army tests, I just didn't know the answers. I don't even know how to start after finding the answers. That's all.

There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world. It tests your optimism.

You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?