Prove Quotes - Page 12

• The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hypocrite, Doe, Existence

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Believe, Cooking, Different

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• History will prove me right. This is an exercise in folly.

  George W. Bush

  Exercise, Folly

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• Everybody used to say that baseball players can't dress and athletes can't dress. You know, a lot of athletes now are trying to prove everybody wrong, though there are some athletes that try too hard and try to do over-the-top things. But me, I try to be simple and just make whatever I'm wearing look good.

  Matt Kemp

  Baseball, Athlete, Simple

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• I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Stronger, Needs

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it's trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.

  John Daido Loori

  Art, Creating, Hair

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• Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Wicked, Thank God

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.197, Wildside Press LLC

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• The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.

  Joan Rivers

  Sex, Nice, Men

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• For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Heart, Night, Thinking

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Men, Evil

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• Saying "I'm Christian and gay" proves nothing. The question shouldn't be Can a person be homosexual and still belong to God? But rather, Is homosexuality right or wrong according to the Bible.

  Joe Dallas

  Christian, Gay, Homosexuality

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• We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Errors, Reason, Said

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• We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious.

  George Tyrrell

  Religious, People, Needs

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• You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.

  Tony Dorsett

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• [It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Believe, Mean, Ideas

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• [One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

  Carl Sagan

  Inability, Hypothesis

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• One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Needs, Physics

  "Stephen Hawking: 'Science Makes God Unnecessary'". Interview with Nick Watt, abcnews.go.com. September 7, 2010.

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• It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.

  Frederick Forsyth

  War, Russia, Rights

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• Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Taken, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Harcourt

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• The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

  Rob Bell

  Lessons, Hardest, Has Beens

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• Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Thinking, Jumping, Lessons

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• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, People, Hypocrisy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.

  Giles Matthey

  Jobs, Actors, Concern

  Source: collider.com

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• People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.

  Madeline Zima

  People, Way, Assuming

  Source: collider.com

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