Prove Quotes

• We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.476, Princeton University Press

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• There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, People, Trying

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• Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Motivational, New Year

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Faith, Order

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• I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Fear

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Successful

  Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922

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• There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Miracle, Doe, Prove It

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.268, Letcetera Publishing

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• When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going

  Cicely Tyson

  Moving On, Mother, Follow Your Heart

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• It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

  Don Herold

  Education, Smart, Ignorance

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

  Plato

  Inspirational, Dream, Philosophical

  Plato “Writings of Plato”, Lulu.com

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• I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Belief, Argument

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.65, Pan Macmillan

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• Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war.

  Nelson Mandela

  Kings, Selfish, War

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 28, 2013

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  A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

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• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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• Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.68, Fig

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• With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.

  Max von Laue

  Determination, Knowledge, Science

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• We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Science, Mathematics

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.84, Random House

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• I just want to know if I'm truly not in the NFL, it's because of talent. Let it be because of my talents. But you've got to prove that I can't play this game. If you look at the film, clearly I can. So, I'll leave it at that.

  Michael Sam

  Gay, Player, Games

  "Michael Sam: ‘I’m not the only gay person in the NFL’" by Charean Williams, www.star-telegram.com. March 26, 2015.

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• I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.

  Benjamin Watson

  Jobs, Men, Self

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable.

  Karl Kraus

  Advice, Neighbor, Better Yourself

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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