470 Quotes About Tests

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Fame is no sure test of merit.

Senator [Sam] Brownback talked about those with disabilities that are destroyed in the womb because of a genetic test that is sometimes wrong. I would put forward that we all have disabilities.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy.