Quotes About Proof

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

I made my history. I don't have to prove anything.

The biggest thing is to make sure that when something comes out about you that is false that you prove it's not true.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?

I have to prove everything on the pitch.

Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor!

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

I took a selfie to prove to myself that I exist!

One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

Families will now have to prove to the IRS that they have Washington-approved and government-mandated insurance.