Provable Quotes

#1. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Provable truths are what we need.

Ellis Peters

#3. That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Richard Dedekind

#4. It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Ray Comfort

#5. Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'

Carol Loomis

#6. I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

Henry Rollins

#7. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

John Steinbeck

#8. This action step should be personal (involving you), practical (something you can do), and provable (with a deadline to do it).

Rick Warren

#9. What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable truth, but the open, growing, evolving truth that is not afraid.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

Paula Sharp

#11. I don't know which Bible stories ought to be treated as historically accurate, scientifically provable accounts of facts and which stories are meant to be metaphorical. I don't know if it really matters so long as those stories transform my life.

Rachel Held Evans

#12. Intelligence is overrated by any species that has it, and that's provable by the fact that all intelligent species are outlived by a factor of a hundred to one, if not a thousand to one, by nonintelligent species, who don't have the brains or perversity to destroy themselves or their environments.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#13. Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.

Adi Alsaid

#14. Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

George Orwell

#15. It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. Nothing really important in life is in the realm of provable fact.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Bill Nye

#18. while some things may not be scientifically provable, they can still be true nonetheless.

William Paul Young

#19. The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the day. I think I'm more a part of their ritual.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

G. Willow Wilson

#21. This," he ran a finger down my lips lightly, as more tears fell on my cheeks, " ... is over.

S.C. Stephens

#22. If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.

Miranda Otto

#23. Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Saint Basil

#24. Keep your eye on the prey

Erin Hunter

#25. I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

Angelina Jolie

#26. God help us, we can't keep up this pulling, that is certain. Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess.

Robert Falcon Scott

#27. It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

John Assaraf

#28. If I was ever going to win Ironman, I was going to have to beat the man who rinsed his cottage cheese

Matt Fitzgerald

#29. I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

Callie Khouri

#30. For a moment I hate myself for how I still obey my father without question. Like I'm still a child.

Celia Aaron

#31. The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

Pope Francis

#32. But you know the more one does the more one can do.

Amelia Earhart

#33. In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Andrzej Wajda