Proof Quotes - Page 17

• No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Government, People, Presidential

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• No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.

  Antonio Banderas

  Years, Two, Singing

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• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Science, Essence, Long

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Coffee, People, Chocolate

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.120, Vintage

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• There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Soul, Individuality

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.287

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• Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.

  David Hume

  Law, Miracle, Facts

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.93

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• In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

  Isaac Newton

  Thumbs, Absence, Existence

  "Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.

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• In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

  George Lois

  Moving, Creative, Facts

  "10 Tips For Success From George Lois, The Original Mad Man" by Belinda Lanks, www.fastcodesign.com. August 24, 2012.

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• My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

  William Banting

  Tailors, Medical, Girth

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Letters, Good Work

  Martin Luther (1818). “The familiar discourses of dr. Martin Luther, tr. by H. Bell”, p.160

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• It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Believe, Soldier, Luck

  "All Quiet on the Western Front". Book by Erich Maria Remarque (ch.6), 1929.

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• Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.

  Mike Murdock

  Enemy, Anticipate

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• Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

  Mike Murdock

  Giving, Greed

  Mike Murdock (1992). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, p.155, Wisdom International Inc

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• Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

  Hadley Freeman

  Maturity, Hair, Should

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• My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

  Georg Cantor

  Beautiful, Lying, Ruins

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• A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

  Susan Sontag

  May, Photograph, Given

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

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• In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy Scriptures. Do not be led astray by winning words and clever arguments. Even to me, who tell you these things, do not give ready belief, unless you receive from the Holy Scriptures the proof of the things which I announce. The salvation in which we believe is not proved from clever reasoning, but from the Holy Scriptures.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  Clever, Believe, Winning

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• Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?

  Donald Luskin

  Real, Thinking, Political

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• Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Math, Errors

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• What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

  Eric Chivian

  Climate, Degrees, Needs

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• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simplicity, Culture, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Past, Errors, Ideas

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.6, Crown Business

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• The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

  Mitch Daniels

  Burden Of Proof, Should, Spending

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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