Proved Quotes
700 Proved quotes by 566 unique authors
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I should have died when I was sixteen, when I planned to commit suicide. And I was an atheist until then. I was an atheist,…
— Lacey Mosley
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved…
— William E. Simon
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Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts…
— Thomas A. Edison
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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be…
— Saint Augustine
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The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder...…
— Inge Genefke
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Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.
— Hafez
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People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit…
— Unknown Author
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For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by…
— William of Ockham
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I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing…
— Herbert Hoover
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We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals…
— Barack Obama
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Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,…
— Charles Bukowski
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A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.
— Paulo Coelho
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Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose and combat the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.
— Sergey Nechayev
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The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more…
— Fredrik Bajer
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If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.
— C.S. Lewis
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In regard to the divine and holy mysteries of the faith, not the least part may be handed on without the Holy Scriptures. Do not…
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed…
— Steven Gerrard
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For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately and effectively defend…
— Lee Strobel
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After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to…
— Christopher Dawson
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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die?…
— William Peter Blatty
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English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of…
— Edward Sapir
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