Prove - Quotes
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don`t need it.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
If things go the believer`s way, it`s a sign of God`s grace and intervention; if they don`t, then God moves in mysterious ways, and maybe he has a lesson to teach that we don`t understand, and it`s not up to us to question his will. No matter what happens, it can be twisted to prove that the belief is right. That is a sure sign of a bad argument.
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.
To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection - the comparative increase of population and wealth - of those groups that happened to follow them.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else`s path is wrong.
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
It is not what we prove to others, that matters to the heart, but what we know within.
We are all brothers under the skin. And I for one would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
If a `religion` is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.