Prove

Famous quotes containing the word prove:

“It is a truer truth, it is better and fairer news, and no time will ever shame it, or prove it false.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)