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Quotes About Proof

The fact speak for themselves.
~ Demosthenes
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
~ Denis Diderot
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
~ Denis Diderot
Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can.
~ Dennis Lehane
En Dios Confiamos; Todos Los Otros Traen Datos.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
~ Terence McKenna
Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
~ Alois Podhajsky
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
~ Arthur Eddington
Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.
~ Roger E. Olson
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
~ Edward Abbey
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
~ Adolf Hitler
There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Transformations were taking place here, and as much as I had felt part of a "natural" landscape on my trek to the lighthouse, I could not deny that these habitats were transitional in a deeply unnatural way. A perverse sense of relief overtook me; at least now I had proof of something strange happening, along with the brain tissue the anthropologist had taken from the skin of the Crawler.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The Times story caused a sensation, not just because the emails contradicted Don junior's explanations but because they offered the clearest proof yet of coordination—collusion—between the Trump campaign and Russia.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
Why am I freaking out over something that I have no proof is even true?
~ Jen Sincero
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.
~ Jennifer Hudson
Provable truths are what we need.
~ Ellis Peters
Every man should be adjudged innocent until there was proof against him, and all the more when very suspect and malicious charges had already been thrown at him, and rang leaden as false coin.
~ Ellis Peters
But his doubts were again coming back to him; when you needed a miracle to gain belief, it means that you are incapable of believing. There is no need for the Almighty to prove His existence.
~ Émile Zola
ocúpate de que me entierren allí en secreto. Y si no lo haces así, ya te demostraré de un modo palpable que los muertos no se disuelven del todo.
~ Emily Bronte
Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by But when it leaves us for a time 'Tis a necessity. Of Heaven above the firmest proof We fundamental know Except for its marauding Hand It had been Heaven below.
~ Emily Dickinson
Love is immortality Che sempre amai questo ti sia di prova: che per quanto abbia amato Non ho vissuto abbastanza. Che amerò sempre te lo assicuro, l'amore è vita - e la vita è immortale. Dubiti ancora, Amore? Ecco, allora non ho altro da mostrare che il mio Calvario.
~ Emily Dickinson