Pastoral Resources

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.

The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.