A Quote by Robert Buettner

Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.

Robert Buettner

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Robert Buettner
American - Author
Born: July 7, 1947

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Jean Chretien

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

William Cowper

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Isaac Newton

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

J.R. Ward

Indictments obtained in the absence of sufficient proof under the law do not stand up and are not fundamentally fair to anyone.

Daniel Cameron

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

Yuri Manin

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.

Howard Zinn

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

Joe Abercrombie

In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often, this absence of criticism degenerates into a conspicuous absence of thought.

Paul Blanshard

Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.

Michael Specter

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