Proof Quotes

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. (Benjamin Franklin)
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. View quote
George Eliot
By far the best proof is experience. View quote
Francis Bacon
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. View quote
Paul Valéry
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. View quote
Arthur Eddington
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. View quote
George Henry Lewes
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. (Andrew Wiles)
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. View quote
Colette
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. View quote
Mary McCarthy
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian? View quote
Clifford D. Simak
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? View quote
William Cowper
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system. View quote
Herbert Hoover
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. View quote
Giordano Bruno
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. View quote
George Steiner
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. (Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues)
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 sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. View quote
Wilhelm Reich