Proof Quotes

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

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.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

We need proof in our society.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

This resolution is further proof that Congress stands firmly behind our troops and remains resolved to pursue those responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until they are discovered, detained, and punished.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

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.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.