Quotes About Proof

But then an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I ask for the Scripture, and Eck offers me the Fathers. I ask for the sun, and he shows me his lanterns. I ask, "where is your Scripture proof?" and he adduces Ambrose and Cyril. . . . With all due respect to the Fathers, I prefer the authority of Scripture.

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

The best proof of love is trust.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Why not take a photograph of the fairies? It would stop the teasing once and for all. It would be splendid.

Whether one believes that transformation is effected by the will of an outer force, or the willingness of an inner self, does not change the reality of transformation as a phenomenon of spiritual experience. All we need to know is that it does occur. We have proof of that; we have our living, breathing, ever-expanding spiritual selves.

Ama büyük a?k duygusu, ilk par?lt?n?n az ötesinde kendini kan?tlamaya kalk?nca, küvetteki bir yük gemisi gibi karaya oturmaya mahkumdur. Böylece daha çok yere ihtiyaç duyulur, daha fazla ve daha fazla yere… Aydan büyük bir zevk al?n?r, ama güne? de istenir. (syf. 78)

Why faintest thou! I wanderd till I died. Roam on! The light we sought is shining still. Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill, Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.

The superior nature of Christ is proved from his superior name.

But you don't prove anything at all when you say it's something you just can't imagine happening.

The change from herbalism to commercial drugs is not founded upon "science," but upon a complex commercial and political plaform supporting a materialistic vision of human life. There is no proof that "herbs do not work." They are simply ignored and ridiculed. Studies are invented, not to try to show that they work, but designed to demonstrate that they do not.

One cannot even say that one believes in the perception of the real. Belief only intervenes after a preexisting doubt, and thus it is the imaginary that we truly believe in, because our beliefs lack some support. I do not believe in this chair I see: the chair is simply there, that is all. Perception does not await proof in order to grasp an object; it is prior to careful observation. In this sense, perception, like the imagination, precedes all premises.

Variations in Ianguage, which at first appear to support the skeptic, are ultimately the proof of its meaning, since words would not change in meaning unless they were trying to say something.

In science, truth always wins

Od Bosanca se može svemu nadati. Godinama živi kao pametan ?ovjek, a onda sve u?ini da bi dokazao da je budala.

The definition of insanity is decreed far too often by individuals with no proof they themselves are sane.

City hall was a disaster. My uncle's fault, and China Joe had the proof of it.

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

You said earlier you knew the color of hell. I just figured you had kinfolk somewhere as living proof.

Like her mother Lauren used to say, books were solid proof that ordinary people were capable of creating magic.