Tests famous quotes
05-24-2025
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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.
-- A. N. Wilson -
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. Ayer -
This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.
-- Adam Sandler -
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 Savage -
To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
-- Agnes Macphail -
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 Prost -
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.
-- Alan Blinder -
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
-- Alan Coren -
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.
-- Alan Shepard -
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.
-- Alfie Kohn -
The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
-- Alfred Bester -
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 -
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.
-- Ally Carter -
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 -
When the guys test for the steroids, (they should have) no more fights,
-- Anderson Silva -
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 Kaufman -
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
-- Andy Stanley -
To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
-- Ann Rutherford -
The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.
-- Annie Dillard -
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule? - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
-- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury -
It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
-- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury -
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.
-- Anuj -
Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
-- Archimedes -
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.
-- Aristotle -
one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
-- Arthur Koestler -
I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
-- Ashton Eaton -
After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!â€
-- Ava Gardner -
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
-- Bainbridge Colby -
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
-- Barack Obama -
Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
-- Barry Bostwick -
I need an endorphin boost.†“And making out in an abandoned barn with me will give you one?†“No, it will probably put me in an endorphin coma, and I’m more than happy to test the theory.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
-- Ben Stiller -
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.
-- Bernard Crick -
To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
-- Bernard Emond -
I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing - to be sharp, yet open.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
Allah has tailor made the test for each and every one of us and none of us will be given something which we can't bear. I am given something that I can bear and you are given something that YOU can bear. The tests won't be the same for you and me. This is why suicide is the a great wrong because by suicide you're basically declaring, 'Oh Allah this is too much, I can't take it anymore!
-- Bilal Philips -
The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
-- Bill Drayton -
Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
-- Bill Nye -
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
-- Bill Paxton -
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
-- Bill Veeck -
I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
-- Billy Childish -
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.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the ***** test, you failed the IQ test.
-- Bob Costas -
The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.
-- Bob Jones, Sr. -
The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
-- Bob Jones, Sr. -
After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.
-- Bobby Bell -
All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated...
-- Boies Penrose -
More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.
-- Boris Beizer -
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.
-- Boris Beizer -
A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed.
-- Boris Beizer -
If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.
-- Boris Beizer -
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
-- Boy George -
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
-- Brady Corbet -
What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?
-- Brendan Fraser -
The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
-- Brendan Fraser -
The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
-- Brennan Manning -
I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.
-- Brett Ratner -
Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.
-- Brian Herbert -
We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.
-- Brian Johnson -
An effective way to test code is to exercise it at its natural boundaries
-- Brian Kernighan -
There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
-- Brian Schmidt -
I want to make music that stands the test of time.
-- Bridgit Mendler -
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.
-- Brit Marling -
I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.
-- Brooke Elliott -
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.
-- Brooke Westcott -
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
-- Bryan Shelton -
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
-- Caroline Leavitt -
It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.
-- Charles Alexander Eastman -
I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.
-- Charles Stanley -
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.
-- Charles Stanley -
God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony.
-- Christine Caine -
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
-- Chuck Jones
