Top 33 Acid Test Quotes
#1. The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else ...
Andrew Jenson
#2. Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.
Guy Kawasaki
#3. The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.
James H. Cone
#4. The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
Bob Jones, Sr.
#5. The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
Margaret Thatcher
#6. To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
Ann Rutherford
#7. Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
Bill Watterson
#10. Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
Anne Tyler
#11. The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
Stewart Butterfield
#13. Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
Andre Maurois
#14. Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
Watchman Nee
#15. You always come back to earth with a thump at some stage. Life has it's ups and downs; the acid test is how you handle the downs.
Michael Owen
#16. Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality ... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
Dan Simmons
#17. 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
#18. The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.
William Irwin Thompson
#19. The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God
a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being
before ordinary people, we have gone wrong
Dallas Willard
#20. Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.
Margery Allingham
#21. Friends disappear
or they are powerless.
This is what misfortune means
an acid test of friendship.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Anne Carson
#22. It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Man, by thinking, can bring into his experience whatsoever he desires
if he thinks correctly, and becomes a living embodiment of his thoughts. This is not done by holding thoughts but by knowing the Truth.
Ernest Holmes
#24. Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
David Levithan
#26. One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.
Susanna Kearsley
#27. This is new. I never heard of Hellions vivisecting their own. They do it to some of the more heinous dead souls in the House of Knives, but not to each other. Whatever
Richard Kadrey
#28. Whatever happened after, even the loss, my life would be less if I had not had that. On the day I die, my only regret would be if I hadn't had it. If I had been too much a coward to take it while I had a chance.
Amelia C. Gormley
#29. This is Klara. She's yours to do with as you will. Here.' He gave me a small, silver handled whip. 'You might need this to remind her of that, though
K.A. Perkins
#30. Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will
Alex Comfort
#31. I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
Joe Trohman
#32. Every single cell in your body is affected by every single thought that you have.
Jack Canfield
