Proof Quotes

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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be. — George S. Patton
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. — Woodrow Wilson
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. — Samuel Johnson
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright… — Francis Scott Key
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest… — William Cowper
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And… — John Milton
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to… — Madame de Stael
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures… — Thomas Merton
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it… — Anthony Trollope
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof;… — Robert Emmet
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood... — Yves Klein
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without… — Sol LeWitt
There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love… — Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated… — Errol Morris
Of course all advance depends upon money, when we depend upon paid workers for any advance. Teach men as one of their first lessons in… — Roland Allen
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton

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