Top 77 Verified Quotes
#1. Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
Joseph Silk
#2. Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more.
Selma Lagerlof
#3. It is a fact verified and recorded in many histories that soul capable of the greatest good is also capable of the greatest evil. Who is there more impious than backsliding priest? Who more carnal than a recent virgin? This, however, may be a matter of appearance.
John Steinbeck
#4. In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
Jorge Luis Borges
#5. Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.
Eric Schmidt
#6. There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey
#7. There has never been a verified scientific report that chelation therapy, a gluten-free diet, or anything else can cure autism.
Michael Specter
#8. All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean
or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.
Arthur B. Robinson
#9. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
Sigmund Freud
#10. If it can be verified, we don't need faith ... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Madeleine L'Engle
#11. It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least have verified that message by his own signature. Is it not wonderful that not one word was written by Christ?
Robert Green Ingersoll
#12. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another ... .No. It wasn't dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.
Lynn Margulis
#14. By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....
Orson Scott Card
#15. A system that is comprehensively tested and passes all of its tests all of the time is a testable system. That's an obvious statement, but an important one. Systems that aren't testable aren't verifiable. Arguably, a system that cannot be verified should never be deployed.
Robert C. Martin
#16. The existence of flying saucers is unlikely to be verified by an accumulation of facts and figures, dates and times, which, if anything, tend to dull and distract the creative intelligence, obscuring more than they reveal.
Ken Hollings
#17. The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.
Rene Descartes
#18. Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
Bruce Lipton
#19. Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.
William Shakespeare
#20. Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.
John Foxe
#21. Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
Melissa Bean
#22. The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.
Giacomo Leopardi
#23. Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
Max Weber
#24. I want to have sex with you" he told her back. "Touch you until you squirm with pleasure."
Laurel's head shot around. "What did you say?"
Oh, shit. He had never actually verified how much or how little Laurel could hear.
Erin McCarthy
#25. My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
Kate Adie
#26. EPA has a long history of relying on science that was not created by the agency itself. This often means that the science is not available to the public and, therefore, cannot be reproduced and verified.
John Barrasso
#27. To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing
and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good
but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.
William Pepperell Montague
#28. The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
Karl Popper
#29. We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.
But how many people have verified that physically possible?
Idries Shah
#30. I have friends that I have made through Twitter or things like that, but they're all verified as real people - I've either seen them perform, or we're mutual fans of each other, something like that. I don't have any authentic, 'Catfish'-worthy stories.
Katie Featherston
#31. Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
Joan Blades
#32. There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.
Jacob Bronowski
#33. As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping!
Zoe Lister-Jones
#34. Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified.
Paul De Man
#35. Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A veteran of Omaha Beach in 1944, I insisted upon including 'None' instead of P, C, or J as my religious affiliation.
Warren Allen Smith
#36. Folly is the only thing that keeps youth at a stay and old age afar off;" as it is verified in the Brabanders, of whom there goes this common saying, "That age, which is wont to render other men wiser, makes them the greater fools.
Erasmus
#38. The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
Samantha Harvey
#39. The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled. In my own experience I have often seen this rule verified.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.
Wayne W. Dyer
#41. Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
Gottfried Leibniz
#42. It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer has also stated that we should never believe an observation until it is confirmed by a theory.
Joao Magueijo
#43. Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
Jacques Barzun
#44. The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.
Konrad Zuse
#45. I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.
Michael Polanyi
#46. Experimental evidence has now verified that nuclear reactions can be caused to occur in heavily loaded solids. It is premature to predict where this is headed from an applications point of view, but the basic science is clearly revolutionary.
George H. Miley
#47. Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.
Barack Obama
#48. Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This leads immediately in his mind to the prediction of new phenomena which may one day be verified by experiment.
Henri Poincare
#49. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
Jeremy Renner
#50. It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.
Jonah Peretti
#51. When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.
Thomas Watson
#52. There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.
Mary Hart
#53. You have a memory chip that small implanted in you, he verified.
I nodded, guessing this was somewhat worse than having cooties.
James Patterson
#54. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.
Eric Schmidt
#55. I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.
Sara Sheridan
#56. In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
Stanislav Grof
#57. Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.
Bob Barr
#58. Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
David Gross
#59. Your view on the world is validated and verified daily. How is your view on the world working for you?
Tony Curl
#60. We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified, we ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system.
Marilyn Mosby
#61. I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.
Max Barry
#62. The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.
Arthur Chu
#63. During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.
Donald Keyhoe
#64. We had a few calls saying election precincts had closed early. But it turned out that the callers were in the wrong places. Some people went to the old locations of a church, rather than the new one. We called the polling locations as well as the church pastor and they verified they were still open.
Jane Anderson
#65. A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#66. If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.
Bob Woodward
#67. But at the time of transition, your guides, your guardian angels, people whom you have loved and who have passed on before you, will be there to help you. We have verified this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I say this as a scientist. There will always be someone to help you with this transition.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#68. There are only hallucinations, or perceptions, and that there are neither nights nor days ... and that life is continuous; yet that one would never be aware of its continuity, nor even that life exists without these pendulum movements; and life is primarily verified by the beating of the heart
Alfred Jarry
#69. The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Roger Bacon
#70. The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
Fernando Pessoa
#71. Left with an oncoming headache, went home, and that's verified, to his wife and six-month-old baby. He's three weeks into a big, fat raise and promotion. He doesn't fit for me."
"Lucky for Whistler, and likely his mother?"
"What? Why?"
"Weak joke. So back to your corporate trio.
J.D. Robb
#72. The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.
Ric Edelman
#73. Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
Mary Hart
#74. Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Seth Lloyd
#75. Then he noted softly, "You're pissed."
Was he for real? "Uh ... yeah," I verified. "Don't be pissed," he ordered.
No, seriously, he couldn't be for real.
Kristen Ashley
#76. Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.
Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker
#77. In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave
