Proves Quotes
460 Proves quotes by 386 unique authors
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Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first…
— Julian Baggini
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It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is…
— Ellen G. White
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That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual…
— L. Frank Baum
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The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks…
— Carl Schmitt
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It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings.…
— Erich Fromm
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When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can…
— Fred Rogers
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If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness…
— Pablo Neruda
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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.
— Marilynne Robinson
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He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil
— Bill Johnson
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If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your…
— Orson Scott Card
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Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.
— Guy Kawasaki
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Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . .…
— Stephen King
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Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
— H. L. Mencken
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Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not…
— Charles Spurgeon
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped,…
— Harper Lee
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Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the…
— Sam Harris
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That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or…
— Nicolas Bouvier
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As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks…
— Ben Mikaelsen
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