Proof Quotes

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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself… — William Faulkner
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. — Jeffrey Shallit
Dark windows are often a very clear proof. — Bill Vaughan
There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the… — Tom Stoppard
In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. — George Steiner
If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's… — Robbie Fowler
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is… — Pope Francis
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as… — Barney Frank
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. — Stephen Fry
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. — Khalil Gibran
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations. — Stephen Jay Gould
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about. — J. Cole
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Documents create a paper reality we call proof. — Mason Cooley

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