Test Quotes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The test of all knowledge is experiment.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

More frightening than any particular beliefs or policies is an utter lack of any sense of a need to test those beliefs and policies against hard evidence. Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts, but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

The test of greatness is the page of history.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick a date. Let's plan this and make a party and get married.' Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you're still in love with that person, get married at the airport.

The next move is always the test.

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

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

This is a "test."

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

Typically, a crusade begins when some substantial discrepancy is found between the world as they envision it and the world as it exists. To the anointed, it seems to follow, as the night follows the day, that reality must be brought into line with their vision. Logically, one might just as readily conclude that it is the theory which needs to be brought into line with reality. But that possibility is seldom given much consideration. The fact that reality has survived the test of time and experience, while the viability of their vision has yet to be proven in practice, is likewise seldom given much attention.

All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.

The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

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.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

Failure is the true test of greatness

The true test of a relationship is traveling together.

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 observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.

I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.