Quotes About Proof

It's just as well that we don't believe in fair trials because we damned sure don't have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets.

IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST! (page 286)

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.

Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.