Evidence Quotes

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)
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. View quote
Emil Cioran
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. View quote
Carl Sagan
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. View quote
George Eliot
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. View quote
Aleister Crowley
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. View quote
David Hume
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. View quote
Ann Landers
Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence... View quote
John Adams
The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you. View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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. View quote
Gore Vidal
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. View quote
Earl Warren
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence. View quote
Carl Sagan
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. (Michel de Montaigne)
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. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
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. View quote
Milton Friedman
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. View quote
Christopher Hitchens