Proof Quotes

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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be… — Seneca the Younger
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it. — Seneca the Younger
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning… — Charles Caleb Colton
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… — Michelangelo
Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power… — John Dryden
No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the… — Elbert Hubbard
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail. — John Milton
Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the… — Thomas Love Peacock
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… — Thornton Wilder
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me. — Pat Conroy
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. — Joseph Brodsky
Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for… — Charles Baudelaire
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have… — Mary McCarthy
I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time. — Quentin Tarantino
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. — Donald Knuth
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use… — John Florio
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. — Leonardo da Vinci
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the… — Wilhelm Ostwald

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