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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Proof'

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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard, American Writer (1859-1915)
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian (1872-1945)
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market.
Joseph Hume, Scottish Scientist (1777-1855)
The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
Ellsworth Huntington, Educator
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
Gwen Ifill, American Journalist (1955-  )
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
William Jay, English Clergyman (1769-1853)
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Pope John XXIII, Italian Clergyman (1881-1963)
If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.
Kristen Johnston, American Actress (1967-  )
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian Politician (1874-1950)
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
Morris Kline, American Writer (1908-1992)
God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue.
Donald Knuth, American Scientist (1938-  )
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
Walter Lang, American Director (1896-1972)
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.
Sol LeWitt, American Artist (1928-2007)
There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, American Writer
Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz, German Philosopher (1646-1716)
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher (1817-1878)
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln, American President (1809-1865)
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
Charles Lyell, British Lawyer (1797-1875)
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. Macaulay, English Historian
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Maimonides, Spanish Philosopher (1135-1204)
 
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