Evidence Quotes

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

May, Cannot, Whatever

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Conscience

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Great, Belief

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

Opinion, Fact, Whatever

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden

Respect, Kindness, Others

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Success, Why

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
H. L. Mencken

Marriage, Husband, Wife

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken

Hear, Jail, Laughing

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
Richard Dawkins

Lack, Delusion, Total

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William James

Wrong, Everyone, Everywhere

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Richard Dawkins

Respect, May, Agnostic

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
Albert Ellis

Women, Men, Both

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Freedom, Friend, Liberty

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Said, Support

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush

Ignore, America, Cannot

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.
Richard Dawkins

Religion, Thought, Might

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

Faith, Knowledge, Belief

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
Lance Armstrong

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Book, Thoughts, Join

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thoughts, Conceal, Concealing

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
Thomas Sowell

Racism, Put, Makes

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins

Book, Ignore, Off

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins

Faith, Work, Children

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Either, Matters

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Science, Long, Often

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot

Blessed, Nothing, Giving

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
Abraham Maslow

Health, Human, Growth

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
Mason Cooley

Chaos, Creation, Kitchen

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal

Today, Write, Read

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