Proof Quotes

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.

Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

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.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things.

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.

You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters.

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in Heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

When something is made idiot proof, they will just make better idiots.

Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.

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

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

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.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

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

Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?

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.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.