Tests Quotes - Page 19

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

There's always pressure in test cricket we just need to stick to our toes.

(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

All life is a test one way or the other.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

The simplest scheme of evolution is one that depends on two processes; a generator and a test. The task of the generator is to produce variety, new forms that have not existed previously, whereas the task of the test is to cull out the newly generated forms so that only those that are well fitted to the environment will survive.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.