#proof

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. ↗

— Richard Adams

#beings #enjoy #feeling #human #human beings

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? ↗

— Aristophanes

#believe #gods #proof #shrines #surely

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#because #believed #change #does #low

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. ↗

— John Clayton

#god #logical #offer #perspective #practical

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#attention #away #book #come #last

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ↗

— William Cowper

#applause #charms #heart #man #popular

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#back #burden #challenger #elsewhere #inverted

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#bad #bias #easier #evil #gain

There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#always #british #continental #corn #english

God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#challenge #continue #existence #god #his