Evidence Quotes - Page 5

• You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

  Rita Dove

  Women, Imagination, Impossible

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• The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, Racism, Different

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• If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Failure, Government, Slavery

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.99, Book Tree

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• There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

  Josh Billings

  Intelligence, Aristocracy, Comedy

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• 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, Atheist, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Black, Intellectual, Facts

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

  Jim Hodges

  Holding On, Interest

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• It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.63, Routledge

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• Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  People, Firefighter, Earth Day

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

  Brendan Gill

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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• A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Weakness, Principles, Neutrality

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Kossuth in New England: A Full Account of the Hungarian Governor's Visit to Massachusetts ; with Speeches, and the Addresses that Were Made to Him ...”, p.31

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• There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

  Louis Leakey

  Art, Aggravation, Painting

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• We don‘t have faith that #freedom works. We have evidence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Have Faith

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• And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

  Thomas Reid

  Wisdom, Men, Plans

  Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.597

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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Learning, Knowledge, Parenting

  Marriage and Morals ch. 5 (1929)

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• When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Maturity, Our World

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4096, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Sarcastic, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Racism, Racist, Conservative

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• 'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

  Evelyn Waugh

  Change, Brideshead Revisited

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder".

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• Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

  Clive Barker

  Anxiety, Feelings, Looks

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• In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

  Carl Sagan

  Change, Science, Theoretical Physics

  Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987.

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• There has also been much love, joy, evidence of admiration, there has never been one without the other.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Joy, Admiration, Much Love

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• We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.

  A. E. Waite

  Tarot, Cards, Egyptian

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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