I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove. — Reggie Lewis Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the… — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
It's been harder for me for sure being Muslim American, it's been harder for me for sure being the first Muslim ever… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Consider yourself lucky for having met him, for he's the kind of man who'll prove you right. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be… — John Green Copy Share Image
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith.… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
We all understand that the debasement of a nations coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
As the economy unravels, as hundreds of millions of Americans confront the fact that things will not get better, life for those… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt. — John Denham Copy Share Image
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
You are here on earth for a divine purpose. It is not to be endlessly entertained or to be constantly in full… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Dreams are self-created, but dreamers often do not understand the images that their own minds produce. Therein lays the essential paradox of… — Charles McPhee Copy Share Image