| "Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes." »Carl Sandburg |
| "More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
| "We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." »T. S. Eliot |
| "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." »Ralph W. Sockman |
| "There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." »Noam Chomsky |
| "Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera |
| "Ridicule is the best test of truth." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield |
| "This is the first test of a gentleman his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him." »William Lyon Phelps |
| "Calamity is the test of integrity." »Samuel Richardson |
| "Truth is what stands the test of experience." »Albert Einstein |
| "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." »Conte Vittorio Alfieri |
| "Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth." »George Crabbe |
| "I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility." »John Ruskin |
| "The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do." »John Holt |
| "On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength." »Billy |
| "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends." »Cicero |
| "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory." »Georges Duhamel |
| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law |
| "The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands." »Alexander Penney |
| "Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law |
| "It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another." »Odell Shepard |
| "Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men." »Seneca |
| "An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." »Elizabeth Drew |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
