T Quotes
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
“The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.”
“The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover”
Source: I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir
“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”
“The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Jimmy Carter
“The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.”
Source: Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf
“The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?”
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.”
“The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.”
“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."”
“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the opportunities and what Amartya Sen calls the 'capabilities' of all through collective action. But that means, it must mean, public non-profit initiative, even if only in redistributing private accumulation. Public decisions aimed at collective social improvement from which all human lives should gain. That is the basis of progressive policy—not maximising economic growth and personal incomes. Nowhere will this be more important than in tackling the greatest problem facing us this century, the environmental crisis. Whatever ideological logo we choose for it, it will mean a major shift away from the free market and towards public action, a bigger shift than the British government has yet envisaged. And, given the acuteness of the economic crisis, probably a fairly rapid shift. Time is not on our side.”
“The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.”
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
“The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is.”
“The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.”
“The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper”
“The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.”
“The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.”
“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”
“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.”
“The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.”
“The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“The test of all knowledge is experiment.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I
“The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Desktop Edition Volume I
“The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.”
“The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.”
Source: Our Town and Other Plays
“The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.”
Source: Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.”
“The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.”
“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”
“The test of any man lies in action.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.”
Source: Cross Creek
“The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.”
“The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.”
“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.”
Source: On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891
“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”
“The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”
“The Test of Death
-Would you believe someone you trust and swear to tell you the truth?
-No
-Why?
-He may say what he thinks is the truth, which is not so, and I believe that the truth is not given, but taken, snatched, you have to fight to get it, the truth is not free.
– We sent you to carry out a dangerous, sensitive task, a matter of life or death, and we sent someone you know is a deceiver and a liar to share it with you, we do not trust him either, but we need him? Do you accept it with him?
-Maybe yes and maybe no
-How?
-Trust here has no place, even if I trust him, I may not implement it with him, and I may implement it with someone I do not trust, everyone in a certain circumstance has the ability of betrayal and treachery, as they have the capacity for honesty and sincerity, I will not trust anyone with a dangerous operation like this, but I will trust the plan; if the plan had taken all possibilities into consideration, including the possibilities of treachery, and if we put alternative plans in case of emergency, I would trust the plan itself, and implement it with those whose presence is required.
-What is brainwashing?
-It is a radical transformation of ideas in a short period of time, without a convincing reason or explanation.
– How does the process work?
-The primitive method is by coercive means, such as physical or psychological torture, to implant thoughts directly into the victim’s head.
-What is the most advanced method?
-By manipulating the surrounding environment of the victim, and passing ideas into his brain indirectly, to convince him that it is the product of chance, or for supernatural reasons such as your pre-written destiny, or that God has chosen you for this moment, and the more convincing the environment, and the more serendipitous, the quality of the process better.
-How do you know you are being brainwashed?
-I watch my thoughts, if I suddenly decide to switch them without a clear and convincing reason, and within a short period of time, then I have to study the changes in the environment around me, new people, targeted ads on social media, random videos, and everything around me seem to happen by chance It is directly or indirectly related to new ideas. Then research and focus, analyze and elicit, to try and discover the process.
-What is long-term brainwashing?
-A traditional brainwashing process, but it takes a relatively long time, such as repeating the idea to be cultivated weekly instead of repeating it daily, and this happens if the victim is intelligent and careful observation, so the process is done carefully and slowly so as not to discover it.
-Which is more powerful, short-term or long-term brainwashing?
-The short; the mind quickly ignores, when passing the idea in separate periods of time, it ignores the old ones, and buries them away in its memory, thus their impact decreases, so we are forced to plant the idea a thousand times instead of a hundred, to increase the momentum and compensate for the lack of influence of the old ideas, and with the presence of spaced periods of time when the process takes a long time, and the chance of discovering the target becomes greater.
-What is a mind injection, and how is it done?
-It is the process of implanting the ideas that are required to be implanted in it, in direct or indirect ways, and each has its own method and method of injection, some of them rush and some of them take longer than the necessary time, and in both cases, the injection does not take its desired effect, but it is possible that the effect is completely reversed.
-How do you know that the injection process is going well?
-The new and reprehensible reactions of the victim, especially the spontaneous ones. Which is issued near the end of the injection process.”
Source: Zero Moment: Do not be afraid, this is only a passing novel and will end
“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.”
“The test of education, apart from the accomplishments that secure places in an artificial system, should be this: Let the man be thrown naked on an unknown shore, and be forced to win his way amidst a new people. It may then be of little use to play cricket or to mishandle Tschaikowsky on a piano, but good physique, intelligence, and will power make their way infallibly.”
“The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.”
“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.”
“The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.”