Proofs Quotes

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. — John Locke
The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating… — Danica McKellar
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit… — Polly Toynbee
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos
When I heard the learnâ€™d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. — Mark Twain
We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that… — Arthur Machen
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking… — George Saunders
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs… — Jorge Amado
Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary... — Patrick O'Brian
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He… — John Steinbeck
The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him,… — Michael Chabon
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.… — Timothy Keller
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered,… — Bertrand Russell
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out… — Aeschylus
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured… — Steven Erikson
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ. — William Shakespeare
We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which… — William Wilberforce

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