Proving Quotes

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Science, Long, Often

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics, Political, Winning

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

Nature, Time, Future

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Mind, Busy, Between

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Henry Rollins

Ideas, Concerned, Impact

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Mind, Busy, Between

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
Erykah Badu

Work, Good, Society

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
Jeff Bridges

Funny, Time, Real

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
Daniel Radcliffe

Learning, Yourself, True

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emile M. Cioran

Means, Preferable

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Powerful, Between

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.
Sheena Easton

Good, Best, Mother

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Political, Winning, Win

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.
Edward Norton

Life, Point, Bent

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
Loretta Lynn

Time, Women, Job

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.
Lindsay Lohan

Through, Process

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.
Marlo Thomas

Mother, Long, Woman

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.
Cristiano Ronaldo

Best, Different, Means

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
Vera Farmiga

Love, Give, Try

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.
Richard E. Grant

Yourself, Challenge, High

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.
Mitch Daniels

Health, Smart, Care

I love proving people wrong.
Ed Belfour

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
Steve Lacy

Him, Different, Grateful

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
Claude Bernard

Science, Reality, Him

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card

Important, Everything, Ideas

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Orson Scott Card

Important, Everything, Ideas

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.
Simon Greenleaf

Law, Face, Party

I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
Jim Barksdale

Past, Making, Ourselves

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.
Michelle Branch

Long, Point, Adamant

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield

Life, Wrong, Whole

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