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No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
Mark Twain
No quantity of proof will ever sway a fool.
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
Thomas Aquinas
'For the pious, faith is enough; for skeptics, proof will be in vain.'
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Joy is the evidence of inner growth.
Maria Montessori
Delight is the sign of inner advancement.
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Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?
Prince Ea
When has lack of proof been interpreted as evidence that something does not exist?
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If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.
Neville Goddard
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If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
Sam Harris
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The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Upton Sinclair
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Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.
John Lennox
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Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
Alister E. McGrath
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I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.
Harry Houdini
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What you see is evidence of what you believe.
Wayne Dyer
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It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
Francis Crick
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Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.
Richard Wright
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When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
Ben Bova
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Do you know what fear stands for? False Evidence Appearing Real.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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...the incontrovertible evidence is that Hitler ordered on November 30, 1941, that there was to be 'no liquidation of the Jews.'
David Irving
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I have experimental evidence that time travel is not possible.
Stephen Hawking
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Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.
Nathanael Emmons
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.
Tim Minchin
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No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good health.
Linus Pauling
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The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.
Charles Spurgeon
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A good trend following system will keep you in the market until there is evidence that the trend has changed.
Richard Dennis
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You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think.
Ray Comfort
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Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
Ernst Mayr
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The best evidence of a mind is when you change it
Roger Scruton
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I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
John Singleton Copley
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
Michael Shermer
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Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
J. C. Ryle
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Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.
James Randi
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Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
J. C. Ryle
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This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
Mark Bittman
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There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.
Tim Hansel
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Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Clarence Jordan
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The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.
Stanton T. Friedman
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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.
Charlotte Mason
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
Carl Rogers
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Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.
Leonard Peikoff
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Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
Benjamin Graham
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Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.
Isaac Watts
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There's good evidence that if people are disempowered, if they have little control over their lives, if they're socially isolated or unable to participate fully in society, then there are biological effects.
Michael Marmot