Proof Quotes
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Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof
Barry Privett -
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Where is the evidence? Where is the proof? We are not going to do this.
Abdul Salam Zaeef -
The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.
George Polya -
What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
Victor Hugo -
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle -
Working constantly may be visible proof that deep inside we do not trust God.
Bill Bright -
I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.
Jean Chretien
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
Moliere -
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.
Edward Robert Harrison -
The world is proof that God is a committee.
Bob Stokes -
The heart is, truly, the source of love. The proof is that if you remove it from someone, they will almost certainly never love again.
Zero Mostel -
The man certainly had assumed he had power, until today’s stark proof of what an illusion human power really is.
Alexandra Sokoloff -
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
Ariana Franklin
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He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.
Jane Austen -
In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."
Eyvind Kang -
They say the Catholic church played a big role in the genocide... and now they have me, a bishop, as proof, a prize to say there, that's what they did.
Augustin Misago -
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
Seneca the Younger -
They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.
Augustin Misago -
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
Seneca the Younger
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The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.
Andrew Michael Ramsay -
Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.
Edward Humes -
Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
Stephen Dunn -
That I was a writer was further proof of God’s far-sightedness; she was convinced that by some magic of propinquity she would acquire a mastery of the English language.
Bel Kaufman