Verify Quotes

• One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Doubt, Certainty, Converting

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• Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Airports, Yesterday, Baghdad

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• Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

  Steve Albini

  Doubt, Reason, Conventional Wisdom

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• Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

  Jeff Foxworthy

  People, Ugly, Comedy

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• If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  David Halberstam

  Stories, World, Sin

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• At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

  Hermann Maier

  Motivational, Pain, Athlete

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• I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

  Morris Graves

  Eye, Essence, World

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• Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Men, Wife

  Impact of Science on Society ch. 1 (1952)

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• In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Trust No One, Men, Groups

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

  Georg Simmel

  Faith, Belief, Individual

  Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Trust, Cutting, Father Son

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Years, Expansion, Conclusion

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Don't trust, just verify.

  Steven Levitt

  Don't Trust

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• Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Pain, History

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• There are dozens of writings outside of the Bible that verify the historical accuracy of many of the names of people, places, and events mentioned in the Bible. In fact, external sources verify that at least eighty persons mentioned in the Bible were actual historical figures. Fifty people from the Old Testament, and thirty people from the New Testament.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Writing, Names

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• The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.

  Noam Chomsky

  Brain, Looks, Firsts

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. May 1, 2004.

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• If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it.

  George Polya

  Truth, Mean, Math

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• I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Finals, Hours, Pupils

  Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Light, Years, Law

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• The security world needs to take a more proactive approach. A lot of companies will know an exploit exists and they'll release the software anyways, and the patch later on. Stuff like this needs to stop. There needs to be some kind of agency that verifies code before it's released, maybe a grading system for code.

  Michael Demon Calce

  Agency, Needs, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

  Robert M. Price

  Healing, Mean, Biblical

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• Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

  Timothy Findley

  Perception, Killing

  Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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• If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

  William H. Ginsburg

  Lying, Order, Deceit

  "Lewinsky Attorney Says His 'Media Blitz' Over", www.cnn.com. February 1, 1998.

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• Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.

  Lisa Randall

  Doors, Views, Facts

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• To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Giving, Magic, Sorcery

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