Proof Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers... they are obviously alcoholics.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the 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.

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.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

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.

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

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.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

I don't need proof, I have faith.

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

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.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

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

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.

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

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

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

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

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

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Human mercy is proof of having received divine mercy.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.