"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
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"the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions"
"It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly."
"A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."
"True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already."
"Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal."
"My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me."
"The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists."
"The proof of the pudding is the eating."
"The proof is in the pudding."
"As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us."
"Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity."
"The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying."
"Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter."
"Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character."
"Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool."
"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."
"Compound interest is proof of gods existence."
"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."
"Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about."
"What you do is proof of what you believe."