Proved Quotes

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!