Quotes About Evidence

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

What does FEAR stand for? 1. False Evidence Appearing Real 2. Finding Excuses And Reasons 3. Failure Expected And Received 4. Forget Everything And Run

In the end, a simple true story beats a sophisticated theory; a testimony trumps an argument!

Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

Seeing a piece of notepaper next to the phone, Kozenczak picked it up. It had Phil Torf's name on it. Kozenczak pocketed it. "Thief!

Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.

argued, with the inventive cunning that each of us possesses when a pet theory of ours is refuted by the evidence

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were available, our minds would be empty most of the time.

more likely that tattooing the name is a substitute for solicitude rather than evidence of it.

Hearsay cannot stand as valid testimony, and assumption spun from hearsay is a rope of sand.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

One eye-witness is better than ten ear-witnesses.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These mens conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a mans justification.