quotes about Proof
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A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
-- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch -
I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
-- Adam Braun -
I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
-- Aimee Mann -
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
-- Algernon BlackwoodSource : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Delphi Complete Novels of Algernon Blackwood (Illustrated)”, p.2910, Delphi Classics
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
-- Ali SmithSource : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.
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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
-- Alice Walker -
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Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.
-- Alistair Begg -
Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
-- Alois Podhajsky -
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
-- Andrew WilesSource : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
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Fermat said he had a proof.
-- Andrew WilesSource : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
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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 -
The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
-- Archibald Thomas Robertson -
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
-- Ariana Franklin -
The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it
-- Aristotle -
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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
-- Aristotle -
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-- Ashley Montagu -
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A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
-- Atle Selberg -
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
-- Auguste Comte -
Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
-- Barry ManilowSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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The proof that one truly believes is in action.
-- Bayard Rustin -
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
-- Ben Bradlee -
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
-- Ben HechtSource : Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet
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Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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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 -
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
-- Bernard Barton -
If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.
-- Bernhard Riemann -
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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 -
I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.
-- Big SeanSource : "10 best and worst lines from Drake’s new ‘All Me’ feat. Big Sean and 2 Chainz" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. August 01, 2013.
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If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.
-- Billy Graham -
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
-- Bjarne StroustrupSource : Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
-- Blaise Pascal -
They're living proof that the 3 stooges had children.
-- Bobby Heenan -
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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 -
You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem's living proof.
-- Brittany MurphySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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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 -
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
-- Carl Sagan -
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
-- Charles Horton CooleySource : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.320, Transaction Publishers
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Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.
-- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -
On tour, its either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. Youre just looking for any proof that youre not completely alone.
-- Chelsea Peretti -
The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
-- Christian Dior -
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Proof that no investment is yours forever.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
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 -
Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
-- Colleen McCullough -
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The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.
-- Cornelius Van Til -
John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.
-- Cynthia Lennon -
Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
-- Cyril BurtSource : Cyril Burt (1922). “Mental And Scholastic Test”
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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
-- D. A. Carson -
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Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
-- Dan BrownSource : Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.183, Random House
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Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.
-- Daniel Suarez -
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 -
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 -
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True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already,
-- Denzel WashingtonSource : "Actor Denzel Washington Delivers Incredibly Passionate Speech About Faith, Hard Work and Life’s True Riches" by Billy Hallowell, www.theblaze.com. May 28, 2014.
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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 -
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
-- Donald Knuth -
I am living proof that money cannot buy friendship.
-- Doris Duke -
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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 -
Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.
-- Elton Gallegly -
It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.
-- Emil ArtinSource : Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.14, Courier Dover Publications
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We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
-- Emile ChartierSource : "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.
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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 -
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
-- Ernest Renan -
Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!
-- Eugenia Price -
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
-- Felix Klein -
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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 -
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character....
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Look at your life, everyone will always tell you you can't do sh@t, I'm proof you can do things
-- Frank Mir -
The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.
-- Geerhardus VosSource : Geerhardus Vos (2005). “The Letters of Geerhardus Vos”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company
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The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
-- George Eliot -
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.
-- Greg Maddux -
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Everybody understood that if the proof is correct, then no other recognition is needed .
-- Grigori PerelmanSource : "Manifold Destiny". Interview with Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2006.
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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 -
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
-- Hadley Freeman -
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
-- Harold Rosenberg -
Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.
-- Hayley Williams -
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 -
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.
-- Henry Clay TrumbullSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 168), 1895.
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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 -
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.
-- Henryk SienkiewiczSource : Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC
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But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
-- Holly Golightly -
The truth, it needs no proof. Either it is or it isn't.
-- India.ArieSource : Song: The Truth, Album: Voyage to India
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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 -
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
-- Isaac NewtonSource : "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.
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Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.
-- Jack Woodford -