Proof Quotes - Page 31

• Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

  Robert Emmet

  Heart, Thinking, Calumny Is

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• I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.

  Yves Klein

  Childhood, Five Senses, Lost

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p. 19, 1974.

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• The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Understanding, Looks

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• There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Country, Age, Might

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• Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.

  Errol Morris

  Men, Thinking, Pudding

  From 'Don’t Look Back' to 'After Innocence': A New Book Explores Documentary Filmmaking with Directo, www.indiewire.com. August 25, 2005.

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• Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in the gospel that pastoral work and evangelistic work ought to be paid, and will they not believe it? They would all believe it if the Holy Ghost did not dispute our teaching. It is a powerful proof of the presence and grace of the Holy Ghost that they do not all believe it and act accordingly.

  Roland Allen

  Powerful, Believe, Teaching

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.182, The Lutterworth Press

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• Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

  Bernard Barton

  Stupidity, Opinion, Obstinacy

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• Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counter proof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology.

  Abraham Coles

  Wine, Character, Apology

  Abraham Coles (1882). “The Evangel: Or The Life of Our Lord in Verse”

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• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

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• When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Athlete

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• To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

  Matthew Arnold

  Creative, Alive, Great Happiness

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Pride, Proud

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.208, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years. Once in awhile, a letter does fall behind a post office desk and lie there for years before it's finally discovered and delivered to the rightful address. The seemingly brain-dead sometimes wake up and start talking. I'm always on the lookout for proof that what is done can sometimes be undone.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Lying, Father, Fall

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of human liberty, never included and were never intended for us as a people. It is only a question of sheer accident that we happen to be fellow citizens today with the descendants of those who, through their advocacy, laid the foundation for human rights.

  Marcus Garvey

  Rights, Law, People

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.37, Ravenio Books

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• The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Wickedness, Levels

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Mean, Science

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.244, Routledge

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• Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

  Lemn Sissay

  Years, Adults, Cyberspace

  "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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• Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her reading. A lover of the word, she discovered through it the love of the Logos, whose beauty fills all of creation. She found the courage to follow the spilled drops of human imagination back to the One who ‘reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power' (Heb 1:3).

  Mark P. Shea

  Atheist, Reading, Imagination

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• But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

  John Heilpern

  Life And Love, Character, Intelligent

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• Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction

  Charles Spurgeon

  Real, Life Changing, Home

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.129, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Want, Banter

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• Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Divinity, Fool, Helping

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.52

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• It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Lust, Crass

  William Faulkner (2011). “Selected Short Stories”, p.270, Modern Library

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