By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.
I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love!
In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it.
The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to them that something is going to work.
There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.
In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes som...
Now put your shields before your hearts and fight / With hearts more proof than shields. Advance, my fellows!
Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
