Quotes on Proof

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

The proof of the pudding is the eating.

Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle.

Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

...operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.

The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions