Prove

Famous quotes containing the word prove:

“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,
And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)

“... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the “establishment.””
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)