Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
~ Vernon Law
I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
~ Caroline Leavitt
I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
~ Walter O'brien
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
~ Vladimir Putin
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
~ Shania Twain
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
~ Alexa Vega
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
~ Maria Montessori
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
~ Laurence J. Peter
The universe is an intelligence test.
~ Timothy Leary
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
~ Thom Mayne
From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.
~ Noah Feldman
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
~ George William Curtis
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 little.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
~ Chuck Close
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
~ Toni Morrison
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
~ Milton Friedman
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~ James Buchanan
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
~ David Miliband
Fraudulent and improper payments have long bedeviled Medicare, a $466 billion program. In particular, payments for durable medical equipment, like power wheelchairs and diabetic test kits, are ripe for fraud.
~ Charles Duhigg
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
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
~ Erma Bombeck
You can't test courage cautiously.
~ Annie Dillard
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
~ Michael Porter
If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?
~ Marc Wallice
48 frames per second is something you have to get used to. I've got absolute belief and faith in 48 frames... it's something that could have ramifications for the entire industry. 'The Hobbit' really is the test of that.
~ Peter Jackson
We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And He would make it possible for us to pass the test of life if we exercised faith in Him by being obedient.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Trust is a product of test over time.
~ Myles Munroe
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
~ Donald Glover
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
~ Larry Dixon
I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.
~ Richard Murdoch
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
~ Tom Bodett
Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.
~ Drew Carey
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
~ Joseph Parry
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
~ Harriet Martineau
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
