“If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 120
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Women, vol. 3, Society in America (1837).
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 15 (p. 235)
Source: Shards of Honour
“If people want to get tested, they get tested.”
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Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
The Soul of a Butterfly, 2004
Variant: All through my life I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
"The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics" (1950)
1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950)
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Chips from a German Workshop (1866)
Context: He must be a man of little faith, who would fear to subject his own religion to the same critical tests to which the historian subjects all other religions. We need not surely crave a tender or merciful treatment for that faith which we hold to be the only true one. We should rather challenge it for the severest tests and trials, as the sailor would for the good ship to which he trusts his own life, and the lives of those who are dear to him. In the Science of Religion, we can decline no comparisons, nor claim any immunities for Christianity, as little as the missionary can, when wrestling with the subtle Brahmin, or the fanatical Mussulman, or the plain speaking Zulu.