Proof Quotes - Page 27

• Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

  Johan Norberg

  Wealth, Cherish, Profit

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• It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Humorous, Giving

  1601 SirToby to SirAndrew.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.4, l.176-8.

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• You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

  Woody Allen

  People, Genius, Common

  "Bullets Over Broadway". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

  Ernest Renan

  Men, Virtue, Proof Of God

  Ernest Renan (1883). “Philosophical Dialogues and Fragments”

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• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

  John Updike

  Sex, Health, Order

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.230, Random House

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• If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Want, Sun

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• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  Cancer, People, Generosity

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• Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Running, Thinking, People

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• The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Soul, Delight, Divinity

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• They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Safety, Ignorant, Execution

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• Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Sweet, Fall

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• Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

  John Dryden

  Jealousy, Proof Of Love, Medicine

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2923, Delphi Classics

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• No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Burden Of Proof, Should

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• Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

  John Milton

  Faith, Causes, Failing

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.391

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• Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.169

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• The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Genius, Records, Companion

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.164

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• People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes.

  Thornton Wilder

  Country, Spring, Eye

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• ... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

  Pat Conroy

  God, Wings, Enough

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Instinct, Instruction

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• Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Death, Almighty, Existence

  Joseph Brodsky (2013). “Watermark: An Essay on Venice”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Men, Vices

  "Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude".

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• It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have settled down to living with nuclear fission, radiation poisoning, hydrogen bombs, satellites, and space rockets.

  Mary McCarthy

  Space, Hydrogen Bomb, People

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Looks, Too Much, Realizing

  Interview with Steven Zeitchik, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2009.

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• God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.

  Donald Knuth

  Challenges, Existence

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• For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

  John Florio

  Grace, Phrases, Use

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