There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
Plato

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Martin Luther

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Ernest Holmes

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
Voltaire

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.
Pope John Paul II

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren Kierkegaard