220 Quotes About Proof

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

Your first draft is not a gold nugget. It might be a nugget, but it's not golden.

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

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.

This is the problem with our story, we have to prove ourselves according to a strict requirement it seems to the outside world, whether it is the extended family or strangers, or even yourselves.

There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public—an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary.

What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.