Prove Quotes - page 2

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. (Douglas Adams)
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. View quote
Che Guevara
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? View quote
Ogden Nash
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. View quote
May Sarton
I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. (Fred Astaire)
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. View quote
William Hazlitt
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. View quote
Marguerite Duras
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Jesters do often prove prophets. View quote
Joseph Addison
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. View quote
Peter Singer
The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. View quote
Eddie Vedder
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. (Robert Browning)
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, I'd like a card. He says, You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. So I stabbed him. View quote
Emo Philips
Never assume that any fact is useless until it is so proven. View quote
James Blish
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. View quote
Michael Chabon