Proof Quotes

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

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

You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.

I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us.

We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now.

Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.

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

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

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?

Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

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

Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

I don't need proof, I have faith.

To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.