(642 quotes found)
“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
“Women are cursed and men are the proof.”
Roseanne
“I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election”
Walt Whitman
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”
Herbert Spencer
“Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science”
Gary Zukav
“To a warden, Utopia is an escape-proof jail”
Gregory Nunn
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Albert Einstein
“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”
Wilhelm Reich
“Prepare your proof before you argue”
Jewish Proverb
“Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.”
Eric Temple Bell