Test Quotes

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

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.

The universe is an intelligence test.

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

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

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.

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

That's the test of street art - to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to American businesses. But as I said last year, this will test China and the world trade system.

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

You can't test courage cautiously.

I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

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.