Evidence Quotes

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.

...there is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy.

I do believe in angels and I believe that a lot of these people I'm supposed to meet. The photograph serves as evidence; it causes me to reflect on when I met this person.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

No one knows what stocks will do tomorrow, but the evidence is clear as to how they'll perform over 10 or 20 years. They will almost certainly go up.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

There's no observational evidence that I know of that indicates electric and magnetic forces are important on cosmological scales.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

I dont see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

Given that Mr. Kerry is clearly exaggerating what happened to minority voters in the 2000 election in Florida, maybe we should wait for him to provide evidence of what he is alleging in 2004.

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as it was made for itself.

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much empirical evidence.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

So while there is no evidence at all that Iran has any significant quantity of nuclear material or any nuclear weapons, Iran is a much more difficult nuclear issue to resolve for the United States.

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me.

I feel like a physician, one who's done a scan of the patient's body and seen evidence of a potentially serious issue.

There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

It seems to me that at least as far as the financial markets are concerned, there is increasing evidence against rational expectations, even at the macro level.

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

If Trump really opposed the war in Iraq, all he has to do is show us the evidence. It would take five minutes. He hasn’t done it. He’s lying.

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.

That evidence of the spirit of life is what makes me get out of bed in the morning.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

I think fundamentally, the question of whether or not Christianity makes sense - whether it withstands scrutiny, whether the evidence supports it or hurts it - always comes down to the Resurrection.

I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ.

Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.

Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death... It's possible. Even when you have no evidence to point to.... It's possible.

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.