Prove Quotes - Page 3

• Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

  John Piper

  Treasure, Pleasure, Obedience

  John Piper (2012). “The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God”, p.250, Multnomah

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• If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Imagination, Optical Illusions

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• Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Brother, Believe, Heart

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• Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and speculative licentiousness, not one writer of talent has been employed to refute and confound the fashionable doctrines, nor the least care taken to disseminate works of another complexion.

  Arthur Young

  Believe, Taken, Blessing

  Arthur Young (1889). “Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789”

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• Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain.

  John Gay

  Ostriches, Crowns, Nodding

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.219

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• Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

  Charles Williams

  Devotion, Ends, Given

  Charles Williams (2016). “He Came Down From Heaven”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

  John Denham

  Doubt, Knows, Seeking

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• Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Color, Facts

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• I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones

  David Jenkins

  Clever, Bones, Conjuring

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• A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

  John Gay

  Men, Sheep, May

  John Gay (1854). “The Fables of John Gay Illustrated”, p.64

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• One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

  John Gay

  Fate, Envy, Common

  John Gay (1779). “Fables ... In one volume complete”, p.103

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• It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.

  Adam Smith

  Doubt, Gold, Doe

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.177

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• What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

  David Mallet

  Hero, Despair

  David Mallet (1759). “The Works of David Mallet...: Alfred, a masque. The life of Francis Bacon”, p.20

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• Kevin Reeves...proving an ill wind blows nobody no good.

  David Coleman

  Football, Blow, Wind

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• Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Atheism, Fellow Man

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• The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

  Lord Byron

  School, Son, Boys

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• God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an inadequate hypothesis. To a great many people, including myself, this realization is a great relief, both intellectually and morally. It frees us to explore the real phenomena for which the God hypothesis seeks to account, to define them more accurately, and to work for a more satisfying set of concepts.

  Julian Huxley

  God, Religious, Real

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• I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Lazy, Actors, Failing

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Scarlett Johansson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the camera department. The ones that are have to kind of prove they're one of the boys, I think. I don't want to get into trouble with generalisations but I think it's a fair observation.

  Colin Firth

  Boys, Thinking, People

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I just happened to have enough time to be able to take other parts between those first few Twilight films. But it wasn't about proving to people that I had something else to give.

  Kristen Stewart

  Twilight, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never felt I had to prove myself with anything.

  Cameron Diaz

  Prove Myself, Felt

  "The Holiday - Cameron Diaz interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

  Jet Li

  Art, Struggle, Self

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

  Jet Li

  Fun, Fighting, Reality

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.

  Sam Rockwell

  Fighting, Artist, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

  Dave Franco

  Ideas, People, Nerves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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