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“The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.”

Thinking Knows Want Lasts Next Generations Couple Evidence Raised Favors Not Sure Generation X

Author:Dave Sim

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”

Men Facts Belief Moral Effects Evidence Favors Good Moral

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.”

Ifs Way Want Looks Has Beens Might Easy Dangerous Theory Evidence Favors Pet Overwhelming Confirmation Refutation

Book:The Poverty of Historicism

Source: The Poverty of Historicism

“That in all capital or criminal prosecutions a man bath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of twelve men of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.”

Men Giving Law Found Causes Liberty Land Demand Judgment Evidence Criminals Favors Trials Guilty Witness Twelve Peers Consent Compelled Deprived Baths Jury Accusation Prosecution Accusers

Author:George Mason

“I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.”

Trying Shows Journey Battle Evidence Mark Favors Destination Finishing

Book:Charles Sheeler: across media

Source: Charles Sheeler: across media

“The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.”

Wealth Evidence Mark Possession Absence Favors Heavenly

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.”

Source: Problems of Life and Mind

“As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.”

Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales

“There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China.”

Shows Belief Deals Building Evidence Resources Criticism West China Favors Chinese Infrastructure

Author:George Ayittey

“Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?”

Men Government Taught Theory Evidence West Favors Billions Recognition Data Officials Global Warming Grants Awards Marxist Environmentalist Politically Correct Largesse

Author:Peter Ferrara

“I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.”

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Humans Facts Law Belief Race Moral Effects Example Duty Development Periods Evidence Absolutes Favors Human Race Dogmatic Moral Law Cannibalism Contending Good Moral

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.”

Men God Light Virtue Confidence Evidence Favors Another Man

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.”

Men Long Has Beens Animal Evidence Fortune Favors Statements Rational Long Life Good Fortune

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.”

Mind Believe Doe Facts Causes Attitude Produce Ought Evidence Prejudice Favors Suits Propositions Hostility

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

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

“I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.”

“"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."”

Inspirational Feels Believe Humans I Believe Kindness Evidence Favors Characteristics Savages Overwhelmed Unworthy Inhuman Inspirational Kindness Indebtedness

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.”

Mean Made Seems Able Science Nature Decision Clear Produce Disease Evidence Decided Favors Agency Texas Very Strong Investigation Fever Tick

Author:Theobald Smith

“Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.”

Ifs Should Stills Theory Evidence Favors Justified Rivals

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.”

World Individual Fate Illusion Evidence Favors Metaphysical Bourgeois Empirical Evidence

Book:Critical Theory: Selected Essays

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this is a bad argument. There can be plenty of evidence that somebody loves you. All through the day when you are with somebody who loves you, you see and hear lots of little tidbits of evidence, and they all add up. It isn't purely inside feeling, like the feeling that priests call revelation. There are outside things to back up the inside feeling: looks in the eye, tender notes in the voice, little favors and kindnesses; this is all real evidence.”

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

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