Top 100 Quotes About Proof
#1. On the morning of many a first spring day ... the woods were bathed in so pure and bright a light as would have waked the dead. There needs no stronger proof of immortality.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic.
Ludwig Von Mises
#3. My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet I find it the hardest to begin.
Julian Barnes
#4. It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernal
#5. Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
Brent Weeks
#6. You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who.
Robert Fulghum
#7. No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.
Henry C. Link
#8. There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.
Andre Vltchek
#9. Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.
Paulo Coelho
#10. Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you?
Greg Behrendt
#12. The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature ... the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.
H.L. Mencken
#13. There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
Augustus Hare
#14. A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.
David Hume
#15. Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
Hermann Minkowski
#16. You don't have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here and you are suffering or having joy. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.
Lucas Samaras
#17. There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
William Hazlitt
#18. Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.
Rod McKuen
#19. Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too.
Unknown
#20. There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!
Michael Card
#22. The only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions
Marshall McLuhan
#23. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
Ashley Montagu
#24. The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier oppression.
Iain Banks
#25. There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming ... All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.
John Williams
#26. Gnani' [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, 'All that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it'.
Dada Bhagwan
#27. I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.
Kent Hovind
#28. Just hope you're heaven sent, and you're hell proof.
Lil' Wayne
#30. It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#31. The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
Homer
#33. The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.
C.S. Lewis
#34. It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle;
Jane Austen
#35. Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#36. And into its bland merciless face what did he have to show as his proof that he deserved to live?
- Nothing but that he was afraid to die.
Rafael Yglesias
#37. Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. 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
#40. In other words, Cantor is able to show that real numbers themselves can serve as the limits of fundamental sequences of reals, meaning his system of definitions is self-enclosed and VIR-proof.
David Foster Wallace
#41. There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
Peter Brodie
#42. Have you ever felt love?
Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science?
Derrick Jensen
#43. If we want proof of God's love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God's love for us.
Jerry Bridges
#44. A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.
Ernst Haeckel
#46. Calling an animal and
having it come, planting something and having it grow, become essential. It is
proof that I exist.
Benazir Bhutto
#47. IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE
Jules Verne
#48. Anything can break if you hit it hard enough. Aren't we all proof of that?
Alexandra Bracken
#49. Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
Unknown
#50. Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.
Jane Goodall
#51. There can hardly be a plainer proof of the lowness of our nature, until we have laid hold of the higher nature that belongs to us by birthright, than this, that even a just anger tends to make us unjust and unkind.
George MacDonald
#52. The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.
Charles Baudelaire
#53. The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#54. To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.
R.A. Salvatore
#55. I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
Junior Seau
#56. If you want proof that 'Catfish' was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.
Nev Schulman
#57. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.
Barry Mazur
#58. Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists ... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.
Victor J. Stenger
#59. Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar's incredible capabilities as a leader
Firas Alkhateeb
#60. A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
Hendrik Lenstra
#61. Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
#63. I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!
Kourtney Kardashian
#64. Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
Hadley Freeman
#65. You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
John Lasseter
#67. To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.
Pierre De Fermat
#68. He wished summer was over. At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see his grades, concrete proof of his success at something.
Maggie Stiefvater
#69. Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.
Robert Fulghum
#70. The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a neutral position of not knowing, we can't move away from it until we have proof or evidence either way.
Lewis N. Roe
#71. Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence,
Henry Ward Beecher
#72. Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.
John Dryden
#73. To seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.
A.W. Tozer
#74. There are a few things that you have to understand - I cannot give any proofs for them, they are beyond proofs. Only your experience will give you the proof.
Osho
#75. And in garbage we find material proof that there is no plan for stewarding the earth, that resources are not being conserved, that waste and destruction are the necessary analogues of consumer society. This
Heather Rogers
#76. If you absolutely believe that what you do is right, you're bullet-proof.
Craig Ferguson
#77. I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food!
David Berg
#78. I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
Algernon Blackwood
#79. While no rigorous proof of an optimal strategy has been achieved, Robbins has proposed the principal of "staying on a winner" and has shown it to be uniformly better than a strategy of random selection.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#81. Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
Alice Walker
#82. I happen to know what family you come from, although I know I'm not supposed to know, and I'm certain you can manufacture proof of anything you want."
"That's true. I can. But I didn't."
-Airiana & Maxim
Christine Feehan
#83. I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial.
Greg Egan
#84. Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
Chris Prentiss
#85. The only proof of God in the world was color. Everything would have worked the same without it. So why would the world have been made so full of color if there wasn't a God?
Tony D'Souza
#86. I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy."
"They didn't ask for papers or proof?"
"In this rain?" Olem gestured at the downpour. "You don't understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.
Brian McClellan
#87. Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
Terence McKenna
#88. Children are the proof we've been here ... they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else ... Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.
Allison Pearson
#89. Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.
Paul Feyerabend
#90. America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.
Bill O'Reilly
#91. 'Body of Proof' was interesting because ... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
Lorraine Toussaint
#92. This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
Jodi Picoult
#93. I stare at the way the tracks of her tears break across her jaw and along her neck, at how it looks like her face, once shattered, has been carefully put back together. And I wonder if that's what my scars really are: proof that I've put myself back together again.
Carrie Ryan
#94. There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.
Rollo May
#95. I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.
Susanna Moore
#96. It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Barney Frank
#97. That the printer had quietly reset The Fellowship of the Ring, and that copies had been issued without proof having been read by the author, never became known to Tolkien; while his publisher, Rayner Unwin, learned of it only thirty-eight years after the fact.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical "proof." It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.
Sara Miles
#99. Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides
#100. By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
Danica McKellar
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