Quotes About Unprovable

#1. But wasn't that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.

Laini Taylor

#2. But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and going ahead. In

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

#4. A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

Mel Gibson

#5. Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Aristotle.

#6. Belief is unprovable, but it is a stepping-stone to truth.
Faith is unshakable. It is neither belief nor truth but lights the way between them.
Truth is undeniable. It is both the intention and the end of belief, and the reward of faith.

Ken Dickson

#7. This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

Susan Jacoby

#8. What if every creative idea that someone has is unconsciously borrowed from that person's experiences in another reality? Maybe all ideas are plagiarized without us knowing it, because they come to us through some cryptic and unprovable reality slippage?

Elan Mastai

#9. Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Alan Moore

#10. Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed - and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him ... Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Arthur Keith

#12. At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia

#14. Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you're trying to be sneaky.

Suzie Ivy

#15. Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

Kent Beck

#16. You've no idea what it's like to crave human contact to the point that it permeates your entire being with a need so strong that at times it makes you wonder if you've gone mad and that your whole life is nothing but a fucked-up delusion brought on by the insanity.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels.

George W. Bush

#18. You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

Beatrice Wood

#19. Without you at my side, I feel as though my eyes are just a camera, like a closed-circuit camera without film in it, registering what's out there, second by second, letting it all vanish instantly to be replaced by more images, none of them properly appreciated.

Michel Faber

#20. The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there's this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Sunitha Krishnan

#21. I come from a Hasidic background; I am only one generation removed.

Jason Fuchs

#22. It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved ... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.

A.J. Ayer

#23. I like life to surprise me.

Martin Freeman

#24. You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?

Kim Harrison

#25. Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

Thomas Paine

#26. Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados!

Marcus Samuelsson

#27. Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours.

Alexander Grothendieck

#28. The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer