Prove To Me Quotes

• No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.476, Princeton University Press

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• Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humor, Fabric, Goes On

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• If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mistake, Ignorance, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

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• Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kings, Stars, Flower

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Unconditional Love, Judgement

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Sweet, Jesus, Heart

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• The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

  Roland Barthes

  Writing, Desire, Language

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• I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

  Nat Hentoff

  Perfect, Wife, One Day

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

  Frantz Fanon

  Teacher, Philosophy, Intelligent

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• You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

  Carly Simon

  Beautiful, Eye, Stranger

  Twitter post from Aug 11, 2016

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• Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Women, Almighty, Enigma

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• What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

  Peter De Vries

  Ideas, People, Despair

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• For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

  Stendhal

  Character, Men, Tears

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

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• The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.

  John C. Dvorak

  Wall, College, Nuts

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• But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

  Goapele

  First Love, Waiting, Forever

  Song: First Love, Album: Change It All, 2005

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• Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Errors, Deeds

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

  Michael Kimmel

  Zero, Winning, Men

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• With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Cutting, Thinking

  "CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "". Interview, www.mediamatters.org. November 15, 2006.

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• I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Country, Reading

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.

  Barry Hannah

  Believe, Night, Rabbits

  Barry Hannah (2010). “Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Darkness, Violence, Prove

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• Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

  Tim Rice

  Swimming, Fool, Superstar

  'Herod's Song' (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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• I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don’t want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.

  Lisette Model

  Answers, Lessons, Want

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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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• Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem

  Nick Bantock

  Love You, Home, Journey

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