Proof Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Islamic, Angel, Stories

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• Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Religious, Science

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• I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Tired, Guilt

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• If the so-called 'Christianity' now being practiced in America displays the best that world Christianity has left to offer - no one in his right mind should need any much greater proof that very close at hand is the end of Christianity.

  Malcolm X

  Hands, America, Mind

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• Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  "Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson". Book by Thomas Jefferson, 1821.

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Atoms, Positive Atheism

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN - The Man Behind the Humor: Complete Autobiographical Books & Biographies: The Complete Travel Books, Essays, Autobiographical Writings, Speeches & Letters, With Author’s Biography; The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, What Is Man, Christian Science…”, p.6371, e-artnow

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• I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Book, Reading

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1967). “Selected Mark Twain-Howells letters, 1872-1910”

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• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, School, Men

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

  Prince William

  Believe, Stupidity, Trying

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  I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Baby, Looks, Having A Baby

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• Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Living Proof

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• I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of [global warming]

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Global Warming, Humans

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• I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

  Dirk Benedict

  Long Ago, Medical Bills, Normalcy

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• Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and the linguistic veil itself, Killarney Clary's new book-her best to date-dwells, plumbs, persuades and thrills.

  Jorie Graham

  Book, Perception, Veils

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• The proof that one truly believes is in action.

  Bayard Rustin

  Believe, Action

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• To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

  W. C. Fields

  Believe, Biblical, Whales

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• Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Lying, Irrelevance, People

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

  Raymond Chandler

  God, Writing, Eye

  Letter to Edward Weeks, 18 Jan. 1947, in F. MacShane Life of Raymond Chandler (1976) ch. 7

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• Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

  Julius Rosenwald

  Money, Smart, Believe

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