Proofs Quotes

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These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . . very instructive proofs… — James Madison
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless… — George Washington
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].… — James Madison
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain… — Thomas Jefferson
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently… — Thomas Paine
I am an idealist. I believe in everything â€” I am only looking for proofs. — Carl Sandburg
O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing… — Rabindranath Tagore
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them. — Frank Herbert
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law. — William Shakespeare
We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world,… — Dean Koontz
Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs, and when he… — Ross Honsberger
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from… — Bernard Cornwell
Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith… — Martin Luther
I have great assurance when I study my own conversion, when I discuss it with other men, when I look over the 25 years of… — Paul Washer
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps… — M.F.K. Fisher
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter — Johann Georg Hamann

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