Evidence Quotes

The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

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

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.

There is never too much care when choosing shoes. Many women consider themselves important but the real evidence of that is on their legs.

I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

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

Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.

Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.

The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.

Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

Do something today that reflects who you are, what you are capable of, what you care about. Give yourself plenty of evidence of what you can do, and you will not doubt your abilities to do anything.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.