Proof Quotes

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?

This planet seems to be in such sorry shape. And I can't ever think about the rest of the universe without coming back home and thinking what the implications for life here would be if we were to really have some definitive proof of extraterrestrial life.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.