Proven Quotes:

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Average, America, Proven

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

- Ryan Winfield

topic: People, Should, Proven

One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.

- Jacobo Timerman

topic: Happened, Happens, Proven

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

- Thomas C Foster

topic: Symbols, Seems, Proven

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

- Jerry Seinfeld

source: "The funny side of the street". Interview with Rick Lyman, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2002.

topic: Crazy Ideas, Can Do, Proven

By anyone's measure, [Warren Beatty] is proven himself. But he still sets out to make something as great as it possibly can be.

- Alden Ehrenreich

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Stills, Beatty, Proven

What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.

- Ralph Merkle

topic: Treatment, Symptoms, Proven

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Average, America, Proven

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Giving, Authority, Proven

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Facts, Reason, Proven

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

- Lord Kelvin

topic: Science, Air, Flying, Famous Last Words, Crazy Ideas

The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

- William D. Leahy

topic: Experts, Bombs, Speak, Proven Wrong, Proven

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

- Terry Bradshaw

topic: Athlete, Challenges, Prove, Prove Myself, Athlete Motivational

It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.

- Vincenzo Galilei

topic: Truth, Support, Wish, Search For Truth, Adulation

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

- Marcelo H. del Pilar

topic: Mean, People, Evil, Insurrection, Futility

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

- Yeardley Smith

topic: Smoking, Alcohol, Chinese, Soft Drinks, Chinese Food

I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

- G. H. Hardy

source: G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

topic: Lying, Believe, Reality, Mathematics And Science, Observing

The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

- Lawrence M. Krauss

topic: Faith, Eye, Belief, Eye Opening, Proven

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

- Bill Johnson

topic: Voice, Devil, Complaining, Proven

The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

- Forrest Church

source: "Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

topic: Taken, Giving, Goal, Proven

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

- Charles Hodge

topic: Found, Prove It, Evidence, Famous Book, Proven

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

- Peter Singer

source: "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

topic: Encouragement, Animal, Equality, Shattering, Sufferers

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

- Bill Hicks

source: "Dark Poet". Stand-up show, 1991.

topic: Life, Smoking, Comedian, Prolonging, Proven

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

- Daniel J. Boorstin

topic: Ignorance, Discovery, Obstacles, Proven

To believe something strongly when it is clearly hard to define and prove, and has not been proven, is to be prejudiced.

- Simon Ramo

source: Simon Ramo (2005). “Meetings, Meetings and More Meetings: Getting Things Done when People are Involved”, Amer Bar Assn

topic: Believe, Consciousness, Prove, Proven

Hillary Clinton has aligned herself with Barack Obama on ISIS, Iran and the economy. It's an alliance doomed to fail. My proven record suggests that - my detailed plans will fortify our national and economic security. And my proven record as governor makes - will give you a sense that I don't make false promises.

- Jeb Bush

source: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

topic: Iran, Isis, Giving, Economic Security, False Promises

It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

- Ronald Jones

topic: Death Penalty, Guilty, Innocent, Flipped, Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

- Chelsea Clinton

source: Source: www.sheknows.com

topic: Girl, Optimistic, Thinking, Proven

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Theory, Conclusion, Contradicting, Proven

Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.

- Drunvalo Melchizedek

source: Drunvalo Melchizedek (2010). “Serpent of Light: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light, 1949 to 2013”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Heart, Ignorance, Mind, Proven

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.

- Stephen Wolfram

topic: Ego, Universe, Proven

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right

- Ray Dalio

topic: Life, Believe, Views, Finding Out The Truth, Reflecting

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

- James McBride

source: James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.21, A&C Black

topic: Years, America, Parent, Poverty In America, Proven

This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better. It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true. Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

- Alan AtKisson

topic: Believe, People, Optimism, Hang Over, Proven

I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

- Tim Lee

topic: Morning, America, Wake Up, J Edgar Hoover, Patriot Act

The doc­trine of the Church should be proven, not announced. There­fore show that the Scrip­tures teach these things.

- Theodoret

topic: Church, Should, Teach, Proven

The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

- Steve Eisman

source: "Steve Eisman’s Next Big Short: For-Profit Colleges" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

topic: Tasks, Profit, Equal, Proven

What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Inspirational, Bhajans, Tomorrow, Proven

The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and proven value because somebody has given you money for the words that you've written, and that's terribly important, it's a tremendous boon to the ego, to your sense of self-reliance, to your feeling about your own talent.

- Rod Serling

source: Source: www.rodserling.com

topic: Self, Feelings, Ego, Boon, Proven

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

- Peter Joseph

topic: Challenges, Understanding, Suffering, We All Make Mistakes, Proven Wrong

The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.

- David Deming

topic: Mistake, Moving, Oil, Petroleum, Proven

Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And the reason why I argued we needed to get involved is because he was going to go one way or the other. And my argument then was proven true, and that is, the longer that civil war took, the more militias would be formed and the more unstable the country would be after the fact.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

topic: Country, War, People, Proven

The biggest complaint from people wanting to start a business is, "I don't have capital." Banks aren't lending but if they were, it would give you a greater opportunity to screw things up. So it will help you be creative and spend less. If you have a proven business plan, share with friends and family.

- Cameron Johnson

source: "Serial Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson Shares Success Secrets". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 12, 2015.

topic: Opportunity, People, Giving, Lending, Business Plan

From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

- Rick Joyner

topic: Unity, Degrees, Firsts, Pentecost, Proven

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

- Donald Johanson

source: "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

topic: Scientist, Proven Wrong, Proven

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

topic: Doubt, Photograph, Evidence, Proven

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

- Moby

source: "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Nice, Healing, Profound, Proven

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.

- Jesse Lauriston Livermore

topic: Thinking, Facts, Uncomfortable, Proven Wrong, Proven

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.

- Marvin Harris

topic: Trying, Done, World, Proven

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.

- Nancy Sinatra

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, People, Cynical, Proven

I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

- Dee Rees

topic: Thinking, Years, Careers, Thermal, Proven

These proven positive consequences of elevated CO2 are infinitely more important than the unsubstantiated predictions of apocalypse that are hypothesized to result from global warming, which itself, may not be occurring from rising atmospheric CO2 levels. The aerial fertilization effect of atmospheric CO2 enrichment is the only aspect of global environmental change about which we can be certain; and to restrict CO2 emissions is to assuredly deny the biosphere the many benefits that accrue from this phenomenon.

- Keith E. Idso

topic: Environmental, Important, Rising, Co2 Emissions, Emissions

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case.

- Jason Hartman

source: Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

topic: Class, America, Income, Savings Accounts, Proven

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

- Jessica Zafra

topic: Love Is, Doe, Assuming, Amazement, Proven

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

topic: Wise, Men, Ignorant, Islamic Wisdom, Proven Wrong

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

- Toni Braxton

topic: Artist, Thinking, Records, Proven

History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.

- Mos Def

source: "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

topic: Crush, Song, Real, Proven

I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island.

- Viola Davis

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Running, Educational, Niece, My Niece, Charter Schools