Quotes by Proof Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. Tacitus valour proof harm Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. Terence McKenna proof knows talking A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. Thales prudent proof mind The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions. Thomas Love Peacock proof records genius But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments? Thomas Jefferson proof atheism two If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him. Thomas Merton proof infinite found We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government. Thomas Jefferson proof politics government I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise. Tony Shalhoub proof blessing doubt Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege. Truman Capote proof privilege littles Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none. Victor J. Stenger proof believe religion Mike Smith - living proof of the need for ejector seats in helicopters. Victor Lewis-Smith helicopters proof needs What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation. Victor Hugo proof creation cat The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists. Voltaire proof interest believe Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person. Wes Fesler proof reputation littles In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. Wilhelm Ostwald proof chemicals firsts 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. William Banting proof tailors medical All the proof of a pudding is in the eating. William Camden proof pudding eating How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them. William Cowper proof prayer believe It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly. William Faulkner proof lust men There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel. William Hazlitt proof talking thinking «678910111213141516»