Proof Quotes

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

~ Raheel Farooq

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

~ Richard Feynman

A demonstrative and convincing proof that an acid does consist of pointed parts is, that not only all acid salts do Crystallize into edges, but all Dissolutions of different things, caused by acid liquors, do assume this figure in their Crystallization; these Crystalls consist of points differing both in length and bigness from one another, and this diversity must be attributed to the keener or blunter edges of the different sorts of acids.

~ Nicolas Lemery

This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

~ Emil Artin

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

~ Jennifer Paynter

A witty saying proves nothing.

~ Voltaire

The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.

~ Vicdo

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

~ Erich Fromm

There are no facts only interpretations.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

~ Henry Clay

Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

~ Mark Twain

'For example' is not proof.

~ Jewish Proverb

A half truth like half a brick is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

~ Stephen Leacock

You are all you will ever have for certain .

~ June Havoc

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is.

~ Voltaire

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

~ Stanislaus

Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.

~ William Shakespeare

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

~ Bertrand Russell

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

~ Jennifer Hudson

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

~ Kate Millett

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

~ Merton Miller