Proof Quotes

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In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost… — Martin Gardner
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary.Â These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.Â This is a revolution!Â And a revolutionary… — Che Guevara
To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple. — Che Guevara
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of… — Charles Lyell
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, — Henry Ward Beecher
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with… — H. L. Mencken
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there… — Kate Millett
Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible. — Barry Manilow
It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really… — Frederick Buechner
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied… — John Ruskin
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any… — Rudyard Kipling
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey
Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make their… — Paul Lockhart
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes… — Roger Scruton
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious intelligenceHe… — Maria Montessori
Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression… — Yukio Mishima
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to… — Lillian Hellman
There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or… — Wilhelm Reich
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of… — Juvenal
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.… — Robert K. Merton

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