Proof Quotes - Page 8

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

  Mark Twain

  God, Sorry, Lying

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.37, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Intelligence, Taught

  Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 23-24, (p. 161), 1949.

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Grief, Knowledge, Men

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Spiritual, Greatness

  Matthew Arnold, J. Dover Wilson (1932). “Culture and Anarchy: Landmarks in the History of Education”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• You, methinks you think you love me well;
  For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love
  Should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
  Not ever be too curious for a boon,
  Too prurient for a proof against the grain
  Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men,
  Being but ampler means to serve mankind,
  Should have small rest or pleasure in herself,
  But work as vassal to the larger love,
  That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Love You, Mean

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Love Is, Unconditional

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• A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

  Rene Char

  Dream, Poetry, Should

  "The French-American Review" by Texas Christian University, p. 132, 1976.

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• We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Poetry, Age, Genius

  "On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.

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• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  Edmund Burke

  Disappointment, Design, Judgement

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

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• Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
  Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relationship, Distance, Love Is

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• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

  Ashley Montagu

  Religious, Fear, Science

  "Science and Creationism". Book by Ashley Montagu (Introduction, p. 9), 1984.

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• Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place. A time of change presents a confused picture. That there is change is proof that dance is organically vital--and much more so than it has ever before been in this country.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Dance, Country, Confused

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• People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

  Steve Blank

  Graduation, Running, Careers

  Steve Blank's Commencement Address at Philadelphia University in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

  Moliere

  Love, Criticism, True Love

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• Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Laughter, Block

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• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

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• Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Men, Years

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.165, Univ of California Press

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• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Real, Science, Acceptance

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Heart, Twenties, Want

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• Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Gullible, Fame

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• A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Hard Work, Science, Frustration

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• [The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package of chewing gum; two pennies bring forth two. Interpreted according to the reasoning of balance physiology, the first observation is an indication of the conversion of copper into gum; the second constitutes proof.

  Rudolph Schoenheimer

  Hard Work, Science, Two

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