Proof quotes

A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
-- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

#Numbers #Reputation #Proof

I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
-- Adam Braun

#Proof

Wit is a thing capable of proof.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Proof #Wit #Capable

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
-- Aimee Mann

#Thinking #Proof #Great Writers

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

#Earth #Spirit #Proof

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
-- Algernon Blackwood

#Reality #Proof #Standards

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
-- Ali Smith

#Book #Argument #Proof

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
-- Alice Walker

#Hard Times #Dancing #Proof

Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.
-- Alistair Begg

#Mercy #Divine #Proof

Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
-- Alois Podhajsky

#Practice #Littles #Proof

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Greek #Today #Proof

Fermat said he had a proof.
-- Andrew Wiles

#Proof #Said

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Sheep #Want #Proof

The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
-- Archibald Thomas Robertson

#Biblical #Inspired #Proof

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
-- Ariana Franklin

#Taken #Ghost #Proof

The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
-- Aristotle

#Able #Proof #Teach

All proofs rest on premises.
-- Aristotle

#Proof

Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
-- Aristotle

#Example #Way #Proof

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
-- Arthur Schnitzler

#Liberty #Belief #Proof

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Science #Proof #Certainty

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
-- Atle Selberg

#May #Mathematics #Proof

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
-- Auguste Comte

#Mind #Atheism #Proof

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence
-- B. R. Ambedkar

#Mind #Proof #Existence

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

#Long #Enough #Proof

The proof that one truly believes is in action.
-- Bayard Rustin

#Believe #Action #Proof

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
-- Ben Bradlee

#Proof

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
-- Ben Hecht

#Atheism #Proof #Existence

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Beer #Want #Proof

Beer is proof that God loves us.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Beer #God Love #Proof

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
-- Bergen Evans

#Essence #Witch #Proof

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
-- Bernard Barton

#Stupidity #Opinion #Proof

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.
-- Bernhard Riemann

#Enough #Proof #Should

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Song #Thinking #Proof

I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.
-- Big Sean

#Bullets #Condom #Proof

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.
-- Bill Gaede

#Hallmark #Proof

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
-- Billy Graham

#Mercy #Proof

Proof by analogy is fraud.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Analogies #Proof #Fraud

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

#Faith #Different #Proof

The world is proof that God is a committee.
-- Bob Stokes

#God #World #Proof

They're living proof that the 3 stooges had children.
-- Bobby Heenan

#Children #Wwe #Proof

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
-- Bonnie Jo Campbell

#Beautiful #Stories #Proof

You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.
-- Brittany Murphy

#Matter #Proof #Firm

If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.
-- Byron Katie

#Silence #Silent #Proof

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Proof

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.
-- Carl Edwards

#Work Out #Digging #Proof

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
-- Carl Sagan

#Book #Magic #Proof

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Lying #Immortality #Proof

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
-- Charles Horton Cooley

#Deterioration #Admiration #Proof

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
-- Charles M. Schulz

#Proof #Theologian

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

#Atheism #Proof #Found

On tour, its either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. Youre just looking for any proof that youre not completely alone.
-- Chelsea Peretti

#Ex Boyfriend #Tweet #Proof

The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
-- Christian Dior

#Real #Feet #Proof

Proof that no investment is yours forever.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Forever #Investment #Proof

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Growing Up #Parent #Proof

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
-- Claude Bernard

#Ideas #Facts #Proof

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
-- Colleen McCullough

#Belief #Proof #Existence

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.
-- Cornelius Van Til

#Proof #Existence #Prove

John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.
-- Cynthia Lennon

#People #Needs #Proof

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
-- Cyril Burt

#Ignorance #Poor #Proof

A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
-- D. A. Carson

#Proof #Pretext

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
-- Dan Brown

#Acceptance #Ideas #Proof

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.
-- Daniel Suarez

#World #Hell #Proof

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
-- David Hilbert

#Ideas #Long #Proof

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
-- David Ricardo

#Proof #Values

True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already,
-- Denzel Washington

#Heart #Desire #Proof

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be … that itch, that desire for good is God's proof to you sent already to indicate that it's yours. You already have it. Claim it.
-- Denzel Washington

#Desire #Want #Proof

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

#Challenges #Proof #Existence

I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.
-- Doris Duke

#Proof

Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.
-- Duke Ellington

#Music #Love Is #Proof

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
-- Elton Gallegly

#Identity #Cards #Proof

It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.
-- Emil Artin

#Proof #Mathematical

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
-- Emile Chartier

#Real #Want #Proof

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Causes #Argument #Proof

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
-- Ernest Renan

#Men #Virtue #Proof

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!
-- Eugenia Price

#Laughter #Proof #Healed

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
-- Felix Klein

#Intuition #Mathematics #Proof

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Men #Good Man #Proof

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character....
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Character #Moderation #Proof

Look at your life, everyone will always tell you you can't do sh@t, I'm proof you can do things
-- Frank Mir

#Looks #Proof

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
-- Geerhardus Vos

#Lying #Proof

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Men #Proof #Creatures

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
-- George Eliot

#Reading #Brain #Proof

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
-- Gordon Ramsay

#Proof #Critics #Stills

The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.
-- Greg Maddux

#Memories #Bullets #Proof

Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed .
-- Grigori Perelman

#Recognition #Proof #Needed

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.
-- H. L. Mencken

#Might #Information #Proof

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
-- H. L. Mencken

#Religion #Atheism #Proof

Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
-- Hadley Freeman

#Maturity #Hair #Proof

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
-- Harold Rosenberg

#Way #Making Money #Proof

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.
-- Hayley Williams

#Looks #Proof #Music Is

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Faith #Instinct #Proof

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.
-- Henry Clay Trumbull

#Christ #Devotion #Proof

Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence,
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Errands #Proof #Should

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz

#Triumph #Exhausted #Proof

But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
-- Holly Golightly

#Littles #Privilege #Proof

The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.
-- India.Arie

#Needs #Proof

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.
-- Isaac Mayer Wise

#Support #Argument #Proof

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
-- Isaac Newton

#Thumbs #Absence #Proof

A good proof is one that makes us wiser.
-- IU?. I. Manin

#Ontology #Logic #Proof

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
-- Jack Woodford

#Attention #Flattery #Proof