Tests Quotes
1910 quotes by 1455 authors
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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…
— Aristotle
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God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her…
— Geraldine Brooks
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To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life…
— Harper Lee
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy…
— A. J. Jacobs
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We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
— Penn Jillette
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We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They…
— Pema Chodron
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One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad…
— Carl Sagan
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I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
— Rose Kennedy
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Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me?" I'll try to get one for each…
— James Patterson
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
— Douglas Adams
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Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.…
— John O'Donohue
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Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case…
— Salvador Dali
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But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If…
— Douglas Adams
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I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these…
— Ayn Rand
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We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in…
— Harry S. Truman
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Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.'…
— Jay Leno
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I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100.
— Woody Allen
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Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
— C.S. Lewis
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Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others…
— Judith Butler
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