Proofs Quotes

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There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
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
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
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics… — Ivars Peterson
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. — Andrew Wiles
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the… — Galileo Galilei
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. — John William Strutt
The very people who burst with proofs of exuberant vitality could easily be taken for prepared corpses, from whom the news of their not-quite-successful decease… — Theodor Adorno
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
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. — Woodrow Wilson
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. — Bernard Barton
All proofs rest on premises. — Aristotle
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. — Jeffrey Shallit
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
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
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. — William Hazlitt

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