Untested Quotes

#1. Karen couldn't understand how these encounters had marked him, and she had always believed that a person without trauma was dangerous in some way, untested. Also bizarre: in all of his stories, Dan ended up succeeding.

Alexandra Kleeman

#2. Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

Martin Luther

#3. If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

Donella Meadows

#4. The role of the hero was filled, surprisingly, by the most frightening of untested forces in the market - the mutual funds.

John Brooks

#5. My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Anthony Pratt

#6. We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

Wendell Berry

#7. Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.'
They will remain protected,' Asha insists.
No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

Libba Bray

#8. All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth of falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.

Robert Sheckley

#9. For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space." "Those who are served by the present limit-situation regard the untested feasibility as a threatening limit-situation which must not be allowed to materialize, and act to maintain the status quo.

Paulo Freire

#10. You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.

Mike Scully

#11. Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Richard Dawkins

#12. My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so convincing I saw no reason not to share it immediately.

Alison Bechdel

#13. Resolved untested was moot.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#14. When I filmed my episodes, the show hadn't aired yet, so there was no 'Glee' pandemonium. It was still untested.

Kenneth Choi

#15. If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.

Carl Sagan

#16. Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Bertrand Russell

#17. Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

Roger Kimball

#18. Virtue untested was never virtue at all.

Rebecca Coleman

#19. Economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Joan Robinson

#20. Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.

Robin Lee

#21. What challenges us, what should break us, can in the end be our greatest blessing. Because our failures can make us great. Our most basic of human adversities can inspire within us an almost superhuman strength. Our weaknesses are simply our untested wings waiting to be flown.

Tillie Cole

#22. Emotional content without self control burns the soul.
Self control without emotional content is yet untested.

Toba Beta

#23. In WMDs, many poisonous assumptions are camouflaged by math and go largely untested and unquestioned.

Cathy O'Neil

#24. In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.

Bob Beauprez

#25. Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Ron Suskind

#26. Moneyball. As the character played
by Jonah Hill argues convincingly to Brad Pitt's character,
baseball teams often overpay for young, untested talent or big
name players because they don't know how else to set an accurate price.

Grewal

#27. Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don't even realize that they're just theories.

Byron Katie

#28. Is he right, about my creating excitement where I can? Even being melodramatic?

You went on a half-baked vengeance quest against Paul using a totally untested experimental device, I think. He might possibly have a point.

Claudia Gray

#29. In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. I dissent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#30. An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Kay Warren

#31. Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Arthur C. Clarke

#32. Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

Julian Baggini