Proof Quotes

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

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.

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.