Quotes with proof-sheet

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  • Thomas Carlyle No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Cowper O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Charles Baudelaire 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.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Blaise Pascal People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
    Source: The Art of Persuasion
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Andrew Wiles 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.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke 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.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Arthur Eddington Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Annie Besant Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • C. E. Montague Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.
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  • Salman Rushdie 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.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bergen Evans That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Abraham Lincoln That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joyce Brothers The best proof of love is trust.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Aldous Huxley The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Robert Hayden The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Paul Valery 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.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Napoleon The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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