Quotes 41 till 60 of 83.
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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