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A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. -- David Hume
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -- Ann Landers
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. -- Bertrand Russell
Evidence exhausts the truth. -- Georges Braque
Evidence of innocence is irrelevant! -- Mary Sue Terry
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Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias. -- Paul Krugman
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy -- Aristotle
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime. -- Mason Cooley
.. Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real. -- Nick Vujicic
Evidence of warming is not evidence that the cause is anthropogenic. -- Fred Singer
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. -- Edward Tufte
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love. -- Plutarch
Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think, -- Ray Comfort
Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance. -- Zig Ziglar
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling. -- P. Chidambaram
Truth is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer. -- Daniel Black
Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing. -- Lori Lansens
Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around. -- Pat Brown
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. -- Aleister Crowley
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. -- Martin Rees
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. -- Emile M. Cioran
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. -- Charles Lamb
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. -- Ann Landers
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. -- Josh Billings
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -- William James
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -- Brendan Gill
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. -- Henry David Thoreau
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -- Ambrose Bierce
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. -- Leonard Cohen
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. -- H. L. Mencken
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. -- Barry Commoner
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. -- Terry Pratchett
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. -- John Lubbock
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
I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date. -- James Randi
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
Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place. -- Paul Kurtz
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
There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions. -- Wilbur Ross
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place. -- Rhys Ifans
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
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
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. -- Martha Beck
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. -- Bram Stoker
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic or white, people who live in a big city or in remote rural areas. -- Juan Williams
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. -- Robert Shapiro
A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. -- Paul Davies
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. -- Greg Graffin
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work. -- James Randi
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. -- Noam Chomsky
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
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. -- Isaac Asimov
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science. -- Nicholas Stern
Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be. -- Jason Silva
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. -- Henry Rollins
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A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. -- Mary Schmich
This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause. -- James P. Hoffa
Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. -- Duane Chapman
Optimism is evidence-based. -- Cornel West
Circumstantial evidence is evidence. -- Bernard Goldberg
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence -- Carl Sagan
Love without evidence is stalking. -- Tim Minchin
Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -- Carl Sagan
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence. -- Lance Armstrong
There is zero evidence for god. -- Lewis Wolpert
Scars are but evidence of life. -- Marcia Lynn McClure
There is nothing like first-hand evidence. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality. -- Richard Rodriguez
Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly. -- John Fund
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. -- Rita Mae Brown
Claiming certainty without corroborating evidence is stupid. -- Han Fei
Utterance is the evidence of foregone study. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Let us beware of repentance without evidence. -- J. C. Ryle
Fiction is the evidence that reality exists -- Max W. Miller
The plural on anecdote is not evidence -- Michael Mauboussin
Joy is the sheer evidence of God. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Growth is the only evidence of life. -- John Henry Newman
Joy is the evidence of inner growth. -- Maria Montessori
Why does life need evidence of life? -- Erica Jong
Faith is the evidence of the unseen. -- Maya Angelou
[Change is] the only evidence of life. -- Evelyn Waugh
All necessary truth is its own evidence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption. -- John Calvin
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. -- Samuel Johnson
Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence. -- Saul Bellow
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues. -- Denis Diderot
The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming. -- James Hansen
All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence. -- Coventry Patmore
Art is evidence of our most creative moment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without evidence, seeds of mockery blossoms and thrives -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
You are walking, talking evidence of your beliefs. -- Robert Anthony
Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance. -- Chuck Close
The evidence of Jesus Christ is lives changed. -- T. B. Joshua
Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet? -- Christopher Buckley
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. -- Martin Rees
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. -- Richard Dawkins
A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't. -- Steven Galloway
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. -- Sam Harris
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The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal. -- E. Cheraskin
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Remember: it's not clutter; it's the evidence of life. -- Mary Randolph
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. -- Carl Sagan
99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever. -- William J. Bernstein
Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion. -- Charles Spurgeon
My published works are concrete evidence that I exist. -- Patricia McConnell
What evidence do you have that you know Jesus? -- Francis Chan
A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart. -- Maya Angelou
There is the finest line between data and evidence. -- Randall Dale Adams

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