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Quotes About Proof

And as proof that he has delivered them to you, bring your preconceptions to bear. Bring the arguments of philosophers. Bring what you've often heard, and often said yourself; what you've read, and what you've practised.
~ Epictetus
Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.
~ Eric Schlosser
E?er zeki olmak insan?n bir konudaki fikrinin de?i?ebilmesiyse, o gece ben bunu kan?tlam??t?m.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Dostarczenie dowodu nale?y do tego, kto wysuwa twierdzenie. JeÅ›li utrzymujÄ™, ?e centaury istniejÄ…, muszÄ™ poprze? swojÄ… tezÄ™. - KtoÅ›, kto nie chce wierzy?, zawsze wynajduje powody. - KtoÅ›, kto chce wierzy?, równie?!
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Tell me how you prove coercion? How you prove the difference between being hit on and hunted? How you prove your arms were held down? Your body was touched? Your life was threatened if you ever told anyone? For people who have suffered violent sexual crimes, proof—the very act of proving—is more than just a burden. It is boundless bearing. An eternity of futility.
~ Amber Tamblyn
people always manage to 'prove' what they want to believe; they'd be just as well off if they tried to prove the opposite.
~ Amin Maalouf
In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.
~ Amy Efaw
She taught him that sometimes, when someone was in emotional denial, they needed proof of how wrong they really were. Sometimes they needed actions instead of words. Sometimes they needed someone to make the hard decision or to say the painful thing, or they would be lost and locked in their own hearts forever.
~ Amy Lane
the full-grown bear took a swipe at him, and he shit his pants—swear to God, it's on the police report—and jumped into his SUV and proceeded to drive the SUV into a tree, where it bounced into the lake, and our subject drowned with a look on his face like this." Daniels mimicked pure terror. "Which is probably the most solid proof that God exists that I have ever fucking
~ Amy Lane
Angels' Share: In storage, a small amount of alcohol escapes the barrel through evaporation. Distillers call this lost alcohol the angels' share. Whiskey and brandy makers estimate that the angels get about 2 percent of the alcohol in a barrel each year, although that can vary depending on humidity and temperature. Fortunately, they can afford to lose some, as most spirits are aged at a higher proof than the final bottling.
~ Amy Stewart
He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.
~ Amy Thomson
In point of fact, now that sound has given proof that it came not to destroy but to fulfill the Old Testament of the cinema, we may most properly ask if the technical revolution created by the sound track was in any sense an aesthetic revolution.
~ André Bazin
you can't reason with fanatics anyway. They believe what they believe because they believe it. It's a matter of faith. Even if you could bring them all the proof in the world they still wouldn't change their minds
~ Andre Norton
Non che abbia raggiunto una qualche forma di distacco filosofico: le basta tirare fuori il cellulare dallo zainetto e rileggere per l'ennesima volta gli ultimi tre messaggi di Seamus per avere la prova che non è così.
~ Andrea De Carlo
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Don't gloss over a routine or piece of code involved in the bug because you "know" it works. Prove it. Prove it in this context, with this data, with these boundary conditions.
~ Andrew Hunt
People can assume and predict and it is up to us to prove them all wrong.
~ Phil Jones
I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record it's not too bad.
~ Neil Warnock
Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
~ Richard Wright
History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
~ William Shakespeare
The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.
~ Vivienne Ming
You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years.
~ Suze Orman
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
~ Gottfried Leibniz