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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. — Vern Law
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. — J. William Fulbright
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. — Eric Hoffer
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the… — Mark Twain
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness. — Omar N. Bradley
Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. — Vittorio Alfieri
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a… — John F. Kennedy
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is… — Michael Parenti
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. — Babette Deutsch
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. — Bernard Crick
Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men,… — John Haynes Holmes
Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs. — Hugh Gaitskell
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and… — James Bryant Conant
The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. — Irwin Edman
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. — Ed Weeks
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that… — Bernard Emond
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. — Stanley Marion Garn

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