Proven Quotes - Page 8

• Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, Awful, Long Time

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.100, Harper Collins

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• If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Makeup, Vulnerable

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.

  Stephen Kendrick

  Believe, Moving, People

  Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare”, p.33, B&H Publishing Group

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• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Self Worth, Firsts

  "A Declaration of Independence". Malcolm X's Statement at the Park Sheraton Hotel, New York City, New York, teachingamericanhistory.org. March 12, 1964.

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• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Successful

  Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922

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• The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

  John Steinbeck

  War, Believe, Heart

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.146, Penguin

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• It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

  Daniel Handler

  Prove, Persons, Proven Wrong

  "The Reptile Room". Book by Daniel Handler, 1999.

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• You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.

  William Goldman

  Thinking, Alive, Traps

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Men, Great Love

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Journey, Goal

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.817, Simon and Schuster

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• Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

  Albert Einstein

  Forget, Achieve, Authority

  Obituary for physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, p. 101, 1916.

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• The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.

  Ally Carter

  Lying, Boys, Years

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• Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2015

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• We need somebody with a proven track record of competence, leadership and what you see is what you get.

  Anna Soubry

  Track, Needs, Records

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I would absolutely commit to holding a vote on the hunting ban - I think it is not proven to be in the interests of animal welfare whatsoever.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Animal, Thinking, Hunting

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

  Joe Biden

  Rights, Trials, Bills

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.

  Steve Hamilton

  People, Knows

  Steve Hamilton (2010). “The Lock Artist: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Doubt, Rising, Each Day

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.219, Macmillan

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• The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested. The Noees said no to everything Unless it was proven and tested. So the Yesees all died of much too much And the Noees all died of fright, But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right.

  Shel Silverstein

  Thinking, Too Much, Said

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• Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

  Isaac Marion

  Dark, Doctors, Age

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

  Harper Lee

  Titles, Keepers

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

  Jorge Amado

  Love Is, Enough

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• How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Taken, Broken, World

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

  Mary Oliver

  Believe, Misery, Afraid Of Death

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.66, Beacon Press

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• If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.

  Kinky Friedman

  Inspirational, Humble, Cocky

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