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“He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.”

Ifs Knows Men Said Success Cases Greatness Failure Tests Proof Can Not Success Failure

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of these college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.”

Ifs World Stories Girl Nations Causes Audience Progress Stage College Needed Proof Tonight College Girl

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!”

Art Artist Existence Judging Criticism Proof Not Sure

Author:Albert Camus

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

Knows Wells Reason Poetry Speak Healing Beauty Grace Objects Poet Ought Mathematics Medicine Proof Medical Mathematical Poetry Is Mathematical Beauty

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.”

“Analogy cannot serve as proof.”

Proof Analogies

Author:Louis Pasteur

“The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.”

Ifs Men Might Turns Taste Horror Infinite Vices Proof Infinity Wrong Turn

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.”

People Giving Doe Imagine Weakness Consequence Proof Imagine That Cunning

Author:Horace Walpole

“Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.”

Logic Mathematics Proof

Author:Satoshi Kanazawa

“That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.”

Wells Ends Done Today Results Common Battle Benefits Universal Army Endure Proof Welcome Survivor Confession Sections Monument Virginia Descendants Well Done Uniting Gallant Acclaim

Author:William Howard Taft

“Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.”

Generations Proof Younger Generation Lunacy Older Generation Living Proof

Author:Cullen Hightower

“To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political genius.”

Country Political Huge Genius Pure Population Proof Housing Shortage

Author:Richard J. Needham

“Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.”

Friendship Love Is Fire Friends Comfortable Married Green Woods Proof Intense Smoke Flames Steady Matrimony Courtship Blazing

Book:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings

“To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.”