Quotes About Proof

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

Courts of law require evidence to go to trial - not opinions from bureaucrats.

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

Well, when you wonder something, " said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more then we want to disprove them. We want to believe.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

UFO's attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more I want to believe this, but I want it proved.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.

Neither wanted to claim that these discoveries "proved" the existence of God. They cautioned that science cannot "prove" anything with absolute certainty.

Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows.

they could not prove bin Laden's personal responsibility for the attack—at least, the evidence would not meet the standards of a criminal indictment. Nor could they provide specific proof of bin Laden's role that Clinton could cite if he wished to publicly justify retaliation. Yet the CIA's officers told colleagues that they were dead certain of bin Laden's involvement.

Four words that describe leadership," he counted them off on his fingers. "Love. Energy. Audacity. Proof.

The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that 'historians' of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion?

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.