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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 and still retain the ability to function.

– F. Scott FitzgeraldRate it:

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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

– F. Scott FitzgeraldRate it:

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

– F ScottRate it:

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

– George Jean NathanRate it:

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. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

– David Joseph SchwartzRate it:

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

– Logan Pearsall SmithRate it:

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.

– ThorntonRate it:

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.

– Thornton WilderRate it:

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.

– Thomas HigginsonRate it:

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

– Ralph W. SockmanRate it:

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

– Henri Frdric AmielRate it:

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

– Elizabeth DrewRate it:

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.

– Alfred AdlerRate it:

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 too little.

– Franklin D. RooseveltRate it:

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 too little.

– Franklin Delano RooseveltRate it:

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

– Franklin Delano RooseveltRate it:

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

– Dietrich BonhoefferRate it:

The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.

– A.E. SamaanRate it:

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

– William BlakeRate it:

The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent.

– Joan FontaineRate it:

The theater is the thing I love doing most.

– Judi DenchRate it:

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

– Gore VidalRate it:

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

– Alfred JarryRate it:

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

– Antonin ArtaudRate it:

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