Prove Quotes - Page 24

• No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

  David Hume

  Miracle, Foundation, Force

  David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.122, Hackett Publishing

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• It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Possible And Impossible, Impossible

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.131, Princeton University Press

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• It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.

  Timothy Keller

  Philosophical, Would Be, Tests

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• How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

  Rudolf Hess

  Decision, Action, Moments

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• Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

  Emma Goldman

  Ideas, Needs, Psychological

  "Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, p. 402, 1931.

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• I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

  David Mumford

  Thinking, Important, Benefits

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• An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Annoyed, Needs, World

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• One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

  May Sarton

  Age, Elements, Old Age

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, People, Giving

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• He has an awareness of what's happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he's proving just as effective from outside the box because he's using his experience in the right way. It doesn't matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.

  Alex Ferguson

  Kids, Player, Thinking

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• Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Men, Events

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

  Henri Poincare

  Intuition, Logic, Prove It

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• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, White, House

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• We all like to prove people wrong who say we're no good.

  Steve Spurrier

  People

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• The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Frustration, Technology

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Real, Men

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.236, University of Illinois Press

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• I learned that I had to work triply hard every time I started a new job in a newsroom to prove my value and worth.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Jobs, New Job, Hard

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, People, Dogma

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.547, Psychology Press

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• The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Stupid, Worry, Serious Work

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.24, Melville House

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• Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

  Walt Kelly

  Men, Faces, Problem

  "Pogo". Comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1948 - 1975.

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• To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

  Keith Richards

  Teenage, Kids, Important

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• I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

  Yasmin Paige

  Important, Territory, Nervous

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Technology, Electric Vehicles

  "Exclusive Q & A with Elon Musk on the Tesla Roadster and the future of EVs". Interview with Sebastian Blanco, www.autoblog.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

  Tony Parker

  Nba, Leader, Want

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• I'm not trying to prove how Mexican I am or how American I am. I'm proud to be both.

  Mark Sanchez

  Mexican, Trying, Proud

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