Quotes and Sayings About Tests
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
-- A.J. AyerSource : "Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 133), 1982.
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This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
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I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.
-- Adam Sandler -
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
-- Adam SavageSource : Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : "The World's Great Speeches" edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, 1999.
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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
-- Agnes Macphail -
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Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time!
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.
-- Alain ProstSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
-- Alan Coren -
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Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.
-- Alan Shepard -
You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.
-- Alan Shepard -
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
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The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
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If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
-- Alistair Begg -
Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
-- Allen Frances -
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There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.
-- Allen Frances -
Your test had cheese meteor questions?" - Bex to Liz.
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I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations." - Two Kinds
-- Amy Tan -
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.
-- Anais Nin -
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When the guys test for the steroids, (they should have) no more fights,
-- Anderson SilvaSource : "UFC’s Anderson Silva: Positive steroid tests should mean ‘no more fights’" by Mike Bohn, mmajunkie.com. October 15, 2014.
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A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten.
-- Andy Borowitz -
I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
-- Andy KaufmanSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
-- Andy StanleySource : Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.162, Multnomah
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To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
-- Ann Rutherford