470 Quotes About Tests


  • Author Starhawk
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    The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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    Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

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  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

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  • Author Trenton Lee Stewart
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    Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

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  • Author Trenton Lee Stewart
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    Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.

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  • Author Upton Sinclair
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    In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

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  • Author Wally Schirra
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    When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself

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