Proving Quotes

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. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. View quote
E. B. White
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. View quote
Emil Cioran
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. View quote
Robert Browning
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents. View quote
Thomas Bernhard
Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. View quote
Sheena Easton
The method of successive approximations is often applied to proving existence of solutions to various classes of functional equations; moreover, the proof of convergence of these approximations leans on the fact that the equation under study may be majorised by another equation of a simple kind. Similar proofs may be encountered in the theory of infinitely many simultaneous linear equations and in the theory of integral and differential equations. Consideration of semiordered spaces and operations between them enables us to easily develop a complete theory of such functional equations in abstract form. View quote
Leonid Kantorovich
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study. (Alfred North Whitehead)
...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it. View quote
Frantz Fanon
Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. View quote
Camille Paglia
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face. View quote
Bill Bryson
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. View quote
Jules Renard
Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence? View quote
Carl Jung
We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix. View quote
Jerry Coyne
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven. View quote
Anton Chekhov
...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers. View quote
Carroll Quigley
It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing. (Toni Morrison)
Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true. View quote
Leo Strauss
I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I? View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
There have been men before ... who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself... as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. View quote
C. S. Lewis
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help. View quote
Steve Perry