Top 100 Proof The Quotes
#1. America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush
#2. What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
Clifford D. Simak
#3. God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#4. All truths in science must be demonstrated either through experiment or through mathematical proof. The idea that something must be so because Newton or Einstein said so is simply not scientific.
Dalai Lama XIV
#5. Anything before you're thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world's going to hell.
Daniel Suarez
#6. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#7. Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal
#8. She says the design's damned near idiot proof." The stern rose and fell. "Did something just go poink?" Torin asked. "Because, generally, that's not a good sound.
Tanya Huff
#9. To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#10. Where is the soul? ... I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#11. By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.
John Gofman
#12. Deserve your distrust, but can't you accept I want to help you? Haven't I given you proof?" "The more proof you show me, the closer I have to inspect the fine print." Rook had proven to me where his loyalties lay.
Hailey Edwards
#13. Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one's Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time.
Marlena De Blasi
#14. When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.
Mark Twain
#15. Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.
Caroline Myss
#16. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
#18. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.
Carl Sagan
#19. Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#20. The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.
Mike Murdock
#21. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Neil Patrick Harris
#22. I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
William Cowper
#23. No gift bestowed upon us us so precious as children. They are proof that God still loves us. They
are the hope of the future Ensign, May 1987
James E. Faust
#24. The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#25. I am proof that the American dream still exists.
Paula Deen
#26. The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.
Thomas Love Peacock
#27. The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler
#28. No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?
Randy Pausch
#29. Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.
J.R. Rim
#31. Are you willing to have a little faith? What is faith? Sometimes it is described as a strong belief in something for which there is no proof. If that's the case, then faith is exactly what you need right now.
Jason Harvey
#32. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
David Gries
#33. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
Seneca The Younger
#34. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can.
Bill Bryson
#35. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
Saib Tabrizi
#36. We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.
Arthur W. Pink
#37. The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard Lown
#38. It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
#40. Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.
Demi Lovato
#41. There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
Joseph Hume
#42. If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.
G.H. Hardy
#43. Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
Rob Sheffield
#45. There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is an unmistakable proof of a low degree of development in the spectator, I admit, but ...
Leo Tolstoy
#46. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!
Terry Pratchett
#47. Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.
John Green
#48. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Douglas Adams
#49. What was the rationale for all this pillaging? Souvenirs. These people needed something to remember themselves by. An odd thing, souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now. You don't really believe you're there, and so you nick the proof, or something you mistake for it.
Margaret Atwood
#50. The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.
Bryant McGill
#51. No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#52. Thanksgiving for God's faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#53. Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!
Christina Engela
#54. Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
Daisaku Ikeda
#55. The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
Victor Hugo
#56. The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
Elbert Hubbard
#57. The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers' lifestyles.
Alan Mulally
#58. A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
Heidi Julavits
#59. Hallucinogens then do the same job as religion - they provide proof of unity, which is still the only known cure for fear of death.
Steven Kotler
#60. It felt so wonderful that she concluded that the existence of her clitoris was proof positive that God loved her.
Dossie Easton
#61. I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something.
Jim Carrey
#62. It's perfect. Blurred lines; it's when fact and fiction become indiscernible. Fantasy and reality fade into a color of grey yarn and you become tangled up in it and can't escape into the world of black and white you desperately need as proof of the reality of life itself.
Scott Hildreth
#64. The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich
#65. Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there.
Kira Peikoff
#66. Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
James A. Michener
#67. Blue does not go with everything," Will told her. "It does not go with red, for instance."
"I have a red and blue striped waistcoat," Henry interjected, reaching for the peas.
"And if that isn't proof that those two colors should never be seen together under Heaven, I don't know what is.
Cassandra Clare
#68. Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war ...
Zack De La Rocha
#69. Let your strength from the past
provide proof of your abilities to ...
conquer the difficulties of the present.
John-Talmage Mathis
#70. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.
Francisco Goya
#71. The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
Iain Pears
#72. The fact that you woke up this morning is proof that this day has already been predetermined in your favor.
Russell Kyle
#73. War is the certain proof that humans find death more attractive than life.
Stefan Boldisor
#74. Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.
Michael Moore
#75. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.
John Heilpern
#76. Authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.
Noam Chomsky
#77. I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII
#79. Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Samuel Johnson
#80. The Law of Moronic Ubiquity: Anything in the universe that is generally considered to be idiot-proof will eventually be ruined by an idiot.
Ian Strang
#81. We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
#82. Dhoni is the greatest captain of our country. His record is proof of that.
Sourav Ganguly
#83. The disappointments seemed to escape the family's notice, though. That was another of their quirks: they had a talent for pretending that everything was fine. Or maybe it wasn't a quirk at all. Maybe it was just further proof that the Whitshanks were not remarkable in any way whatsoever.
Anne Tyler
#84. From now on whenever I read a math book, I'm going to try to figure out by myself how everything was done, before looking at the solution. Even if I don't figure it out, I think I'll be able to see the beauty of a proof then.
Donald E. Knuth
#85. Hallelujah"
"Your faith was strong but you needed proof.
You saw her bathing on the roof.
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you.
She tied you to a kitchen chair,
she broke your throne, and she cut your hair.
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah ...
Leonard Cohen
#86. Laughter is the evidence that the chokehold of shame has been loosened. Knowing laughter is the moment we feel proof that our shame has been transformed. Like empathy, it strips shame to the bone, robs it of its power and forces it from the closet.
Brene Brown
#87. Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#88. Mr. Ching claims the superiority of Chinese hand-and-foot fighting, and promises ocular proof of such.
Y.S. Lee
#89. When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
John Keats
#90. Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.
Mariska Hargitay
#91. The bawling of babies, always in a way
Inappropriate - why should the love and innocent
Greet existence with wails? - is proof that not all
Is well. Dreams and deliveries never quite mesh.
Eugene H. Peterson
#92. By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
William Shakespeare
#93. In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.
Milan Kundera
#94. Don't fret. We all experience it. We must. For despite our humanity love is the only way we can be like gods. It is in love that we glimpse heaven during our lifetime and have proof that there's something worth looking forward to in the end.
Felix Alexander
#95. Sometimes I look at you, and I think - if I didn't know we shared a destiny, if I hadn't seen the proof for myself, I'd never believe this was real. That you could love me as much as I love you.
Claudia Gray
#96. The existence of such rays coming from man and all living things has been suspected by scientists for many years. Today is the first experimental proof of their existence. The discovery shows that every atom and every molecule in nature is a continuous radio broadcasting station ...
Paramahansa Yogananda
#97. Even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge" - and where is the empirical proof for that?
Ken Wilber
#98. People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
Gillian Flynn
#99. The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength ... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.
Father Damien
#100. Social proof is a flame to the human mind moth, and it leaves a fire trail of destruction across the path of enough.
Will Jelbert
