Proof Quotes

Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

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

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

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

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

Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.

Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much.

The suburbs: signs of life, but no proofs.

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.

Faith with proof is no faith at all.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

Est autem fides sperandarum substantia rerum, argumentum non apparentium. – Faith is the hypostasis of things hoped for; the proof of things not seen.

What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

There is no scientific proof that any food increases sexual drive.

I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

...and when is enough proof enough?

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.