Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
Aristotle
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By far the best proof is experience.
Francis Bacon
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Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:"The question is much too difficult for me".
Albert Einstein
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To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.
Galileo Galilei
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Salvador Dali
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Another roof, another proof.
Paul Erdos
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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
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Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
