Proof Quotes - Page 25

• Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

  Mike Murdock

  Giving, Greed

  Mike Murdock (1992). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, p.155, Wisdom International Inc

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• Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

  Hadley Freeman

  Maturity, Hair, Should

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• My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

  Georg Cantor

  Beautiful, Lying, Ruins

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• A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

  Susan Sontag

  May, Photograph, Given

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

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• In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy Scriptures. Do not be led astray by winning words and clever arguments. Even to me, who tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things which I announce. The salvation in which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but from the Holy Scriptures.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Clever, Believe, Winning

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• Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?

  Donald Luskin

  Real, Thinking, Political

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• Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Math, Errors

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• What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

  Eric Chivian

  Climate, Degrees, Needs

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simplicity, Culture, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Past, Errors, Ideas

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.6, Crown Business

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• 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.

  Mitch Daniels

  Burden Of Proof, Should, Spending

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• The man that believes will obey; failure to obey is convincing proof that there is no true faith present. To attempt the impossible God must give faith or there will be none, and He gives faith to the obedient heart only.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Mistake, Games

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• I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Math, Enough, Marvelous

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• I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

  Susanna Moore

  Dream, Memories, Thinking

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• I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you from the error of your ways.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Thinking, Errors

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• I have great assurance when I study my own conversion, when I discuss it with other men, when I look over the 25 years of my pilgrimmage with Christ; I have great assurance of having come to know Him. But even now, if I were to depart from the faith and walk away and keep going in that direction into heresy and worldiness, it could be the greatest of proofs that I never knew Him, that the whole thing was a work of the flesh.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Years, Flesh

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• The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

  J. C. Ryle

  Life Changing, Victory, Foundation

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• 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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Beastly, Ability

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Food, Men

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Mircea Eliade

  Believe, Sacrifice, Twenties

  Mircea Eliade (1990). “Autobiography, Volume 1: 1907-1937, Journey East, Journey West”, p.200, University of Chicago Press

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• A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.

  D. A. Carson

  Pretext

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• I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Girl, Looks, Letters

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• Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

  Elton Gallegly

  True Identity, Cards, Forged

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• I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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