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Quotes about Proof

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
— Charles Spurgeon
In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.
— GK Chesterton
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
— Charles Swindoll
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
— Henry David Thoreau
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
— Karl Barth
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
— Stephen Hawking
What was the rationale for all this pillaging? Souvenirs. These people needed something to remember themselves by. An odd thing, souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now. You don't really believe you're there, and so you nick the proof, or something you mistake for it.
— Margaret Atwood
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
— John Keats