Quotes About Proof

It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

For me, it has an extra value to be able to beat the Williams sisters in the finals, because they are just so good. For me, it's proof of being literally the best player in the tournament.

You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'

What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The point of a revolution is to bring justice to the people, so even if you don't have proof of sabotage, you manufacture it.

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

What Godel and Rosser showed is that the consistency of a (sufficiently extensive) formal system is something that lies outside the power of the formal system itself to establish.

The danger here is that, in trying to prove to yourself something you do not need to prove, you will behave in a way that is untrue to you, and place your soul in danger.

There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast.

In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive.

How strange that her absence would have no effect whatsoever on the things of this world. Proving that they were not just things, she thought, proving that they were spirit surrounded by a shell of substance, just like her.

faith: belief in light of the absence of proof, enlightenment received through prayer, and that which is seen and unseen….

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

We say of a proof that it convinces us of a logical law.—But of course a proof starts somewhere. And the point is: What convinces us of the primitive propositions on which the proof is based? Here there is no proof.

Mathematics is a method of logic.

Many scientists simply do not look at the evidence of the reality of God.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.

Sometimes, proof is just another word to prolong suffering

Challenges will come, but success is proof of challenges conquered and difficulties overcome.