Proof Quotes - Page 34

• One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.

  Brigham Young

  People, Earth, Firsts

  Journal of Discourses 13:300, November 13, 1870.

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• The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind--yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Children, Feet, Mind

  H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.114, Lulu.com

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• Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

  Georg Brandes

  Punishment, Medicine, Guilt

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.14, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

  Herbert Spencer

  Strong, Past, Weak

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.340

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• A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

  Morris Kline

  Math, Doubt, Mathematics

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.478, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Laughter, Robins, Holiness

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• I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.

  Big Sean

  Bullets, Condom, Type

  "10 best and worst lines from Drake’s new ‘All Me’ feat. Big Sean and 2 Chainz" by Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. August 01, 2013.

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• I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go.

  Kiki Smith

  Meditation, Waiting, Information

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• Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wall, Progress, Becoming

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• Really believe in yourself, and that no matter what anyone says to you, if you really have a dream and the passion - go for it! If you're willing to go through the rigors to get it, it will happen. It may not happen in your timeframe, but it will happen. I'm living proof of that. I was once on the other end of the spectrum, and now I'm living my dream. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  Criss Angel

  Dream, Believe, Passion

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• Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beer, Want, Total War

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

  Huston Smith

  Years, Two, Religion

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• Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.

  Billy Graham

  Mercy, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Apr 26, 2015

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• The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

  C. S. Lewis

  Home, Heart, Heaven

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• It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Enmity, Natural

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “According to Promise”, p.27, Gideon House Books

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• Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Believe, Power, Utterance

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• The best pitchers have a short term memory and a bullet proof confidence.

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Confidence, Baseball

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• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Acceptance, Rejection

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• You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.

  Geoff Davis

  Mom, Dream, Growing Up

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• Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tolerance, Distrust, Ideals

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• No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Moving, Player

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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Waiting, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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• The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in Heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.

  William Arnot

  Christian, Heaven, Facts

  William Arnot (1873). “Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth: Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs”, p.278

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