{"quotes":[{"text":"You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","anybody","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","obedience","obedient","permission","permit","philosophy","proof","prove","proving","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":15767,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Never become proud within yourself when you are seen as the one to cause that great effect. Never become timid if you know you can while others dare to prove otherwise! Mind your business and make the strike.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["business","change-the-world","dare","effect","food-for-thought","great","great-effect","israelmore-ayivor","make-a-change","make-a-difference","make-the-strike","mind","otherwise","pride","proud","prove","prove-otherwise","strike","strike-it","take-the-strike","timid"],"id":18397,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as 'anti-God' and a 'secular humanist' or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant 'scripture' at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only hatred.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["anti-god","common-sense","dismiss","disprove","fanatic","hatred","irrelevant","misapplied","prove","reason","scientific-facts","scripture","secular-humanist","sheeple","spouting"],"id":23442,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and 'true', it will become science. Science can be used to prove or disprove opinions, beliefs and accusations. Until any religion crosses that line, who is anyone to use their religion to judge others?","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["accusations","beliefs","ceases","disprove","factual","judge","opinions","prove","religion","science","speculative","true"],"id":25684,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"There’s calm in the mind of the humble. An unmistakable peace of not having to prove anything to anyone.","author":"Ron Baratono","tags":["calm","humble","mind","peace","people","prove"],"id":25991,"author_id":"Ron+Baratono"},{"text":"The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny it. Finding evidence that backs up your theories ain't useful, but finding evidence that your theories are wrong is priceless. Never try to prove yourself right -- always try to prove yourself wrong instead.","author":"Andy Lane","tags":["deduction","evidence","logic","logical-thinking","prove","reason","reasoning"],"id":28839,"author_id":"Andy+Lane"},{"text":"Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and devote yourself for a fake love to prove it the most real one.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["devote","fake","love","prove","real","sacrifices"],"id":31995,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"It is not about proving anything to the world. It is all about proving your capabilities to yourself and stretching your own boundaries.","author":"Manoj Arora","tags":["boundaries","capabilities","capabilities","capability","prove","stretch","world"],"id":36713,"author_id":"Manoj+Arora"},{"text":"Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or laws can be known through their scriptures, their prophets, or some special revelation. Suppose further that the evidence that is available to support the reliability of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations is weaker than that God is hypothetically capable of producing. That is, suppose that Christians maintain that Jesus was resurrected on the basis of the Gospels, or that God’s existence can be known through the Bible, or Muslims insist on the historical authenticity of the Koran. Could God, the almighty creator of the universe, have brought it about so that the evidence in favor of the resurrection, the Bible, or the Koran was better than we currently find it? I take it that the answer is obviously yes. Even if you think there is evidence that is sufficient to prove the resurrection, a reasonable person must also acknowledge that it could have been better. And there’s the problem. If the capacity of that god is greater than the effectiveness or quality of those scriptures, prophets, or special revelations, then the story they are telling contradicts itself. 'We know our god is real on the basis of evidence that is inadequate for our god.' Or, 'The grounds that lead us to believe in our god are inconsistent with the god we accept; nevertheless, we believe in this god that would have given us greater evidence if it had wished for us to believe in it.'Given the disparity between the gods that these religious movements portend and the grounds offered to justify them, the atheist is warranted in dismissing such claims. If the sort of divine being that they promote were real and if he had sought our believe on the basis of the evidence, the evidential situation would not resemble the one we are in. The story doesn’t make internal sense. A far better explanation is that their enthusiasm for believing in a god has led them to overstate what the evidence shows. And that same enthusiasm has made it difficult for them to see that an all powerful God would have the power to make his existence utterly obvious and undeniable. Since it’s not, the non-believer can’t possibly be faulted for failing to believe.","author":"Matthew S. McCormick","tags":["agnosticism","argument-against-god","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","belief","bible-koran","christianity","christians","evidence","existence-power","faith","god","gods","history","islam","jesus","logic","muslim","muslims","philosophy","prophecy","prove","reason","religion","resurrection","revelation","scripture","sense","theism"],"id":42870,"author_id":"Matthew+S.+McCormick"},{"text":"We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.","author":"Seth Shostak","tags":["universe","never","prove "],"id":45069,"author_id":"Seth+Shostak"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}