Proof Quotes - Page 9

• The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Humility, Maturity

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.372, Harper Collins

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• Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

  Robert Buettner

  Atheist, Absence, Mathematical Proof

  Robert Buettner (2005). “Orphan's Destiny”

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• Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.

  Hermann Kolbe

  Teacher, Science, Thinking

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• I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

  Orel Hershiser

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Orel Hershiser (1990). “Out of the Blue”, Jove Books

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• An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Science, Simple, Men

  Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”

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• The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our ideas of the correlation of organic bodies will be swayed by our knowledge of the history of evolution. To carry the proof of it into all branches of research would be an almost endless task. (1828)

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Real, Science, Light

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• You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

  Christian Dior

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

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• If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

  George MacDonald

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Atheism

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.838, e-artnow

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• The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.

  Archibald Thomas Robertson

  Bible, Biblical, Religion

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• We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.

  Robert D. Brinsmead

  Bible, Christian, Religious

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• I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Weed, Marijuana

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• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Way, Ancient

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place, then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God and the Christian faith is absolute truth.

  Henry M. Morris

  God, Faith, Christian

  Henry M. Morris, Henry M. Morris III (1974). “Many Infallible Proofs: Evidences for the Christian Faith”, p.97, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Believe, Petitions

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783”

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• The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.

  Kerry Packer

  Technology, Facts, Evolve

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• Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Breathing, Needs

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Truth, Acceptance, Science

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• No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Trust, Thinking, Echoes

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.16

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• Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

  Johann Arndt

  Heart, Suffering, Spirit

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• Desire is proof of the availability.

  Robert Collier

  Availability, Desire

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• I wonder if I could have been here before as I drive up the Roman road the Theater seems familiar - perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road... I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the middle ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and we will be.

  George S. Patton

  Army, White, Age

  Letter to his mother from Chamlieu, France, November 20, 1917.

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• The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Greatness, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2008). “A Message to Garcia: And Other Classic Success Writings”, p.55, Penguin

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• Taste has no system and no proofs.

  Susan Sontag

  Taste

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.160, Macmillan

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