"Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong."
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"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."
"The result proves the wisdom of the act."
"If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him."
"I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody."
"One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are."
"Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not."
"Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve."
"How dangerous can false reasoning prove!"
"I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will."
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove."
"We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic."
"The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him."
"I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything."
"The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure."
"I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?"
"If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change."
"One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage."
"I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not."
"To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself."