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Source: Religious Freedom. A memorial and remonstrance drawn by ... J. Madison, late President of the United States, ... against the general assessment in

“If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.”

Ifs Needs Principles Evidence Evident

Book:The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions

Source: The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions

“Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.”

People Ifs Said Done Remember Lying Interest Higher Evidence Intelligent Caught Denied Lied

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief in that god is unreasonable. That's the only proposition that any atheist of any kind has to demonstrate in order to win the argument. Because anything beyond that... is just having fun.”

Ifs Kind Stills Order Winning Belief Given Fun Evidence Argument Atheist Absence Having Fun Propositions Unreasonable Just Have Fun

Author:Scott Clifton

“If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.”

Ifs Way Mean Children Reading Taught Evidence Bother Propaganda Dull Bores Prey Implications Assertion Tedious

Author:Joan Aiken

“All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.”

“...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.”

Ifs World Looks War Country Today Suffering Goal Answers Poverty Degrees Evidence Capitalism Hatred Blind Prosperity Scales Checks Pauses Premises Magnitude Unspeakable

Author:Ayn Rand

“The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.”

Ifs Way Looks Happened Creation Theory Evolution Evidence Assuming Enormous Quantity Compelling Enormous Quantities

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Should Firsts Heart Mean Self Spirit Turns Christianity Knowing My Heart Circumstances Holy Evidence Bases Give Me Available Witness Holy Spirit

Author:William Lane Craig

“Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a tendency to believe what you're told, a tendency to fear your own death, a tendency to wish to see your loved ones who have died, to wish to see them again, a wish to understand where you came from, where the world came from, all these psychological predispositions, under the right cultural conditions, tend to lead to people believing in things for which there is no evidence.”

People Ifs World Believe Children Belief Wish Powerful Common Conditions Authority Evidence Universal Died Tendencies Psychological Loved Ones Supernatural Beings

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.”

“It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.”

Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.”

“Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.”

Ifs Helping Birth Evidence Planning Doulas Epidurals

Author:Emily Oster

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Lasts Order Support Week Truth Is Evidence Historical Assembly Allegations Historical Truth

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Given Fine Prove Evidence Negative Prove It If There Is A God

Author:Ayn Rand

“There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.”

“Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.”

Ifs Lines Effort Cases Clear Impossible Waste Research Evidence Scientist Scary Brilliant Rejects Pointing

Author:Hugh Ross

“It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Earth Existence History Doubt Willing Evidence Strikes Ridiculous Doubted

Book:On Certainty

Source: On Certainty

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

Ifs Real States Process Growth Change Race History Tree Revolution Evidence Trauma Rings Circles Invisible Cards Layers Composing Tissues Carts Swelling New Growth

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human societies, it could be very bad news. Because although such authoritarian systems seem to be good at preserving social coherence and an orderly society, they are, by the same token, not good at adapting to change.”

Ifs Humans Seems Social Trump Authority News Evidence Be Good Explanation Behaviour Bad News Human Society Orderly Tokens Adapting Coherence Adapting To Change

Author:Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

“If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.”

Ifs Persons Light Grows Differences Simple Emotional Judgment Capable Ordinary Evidence Prejudice Resistance Contradiction Exposed Bias Threatened Misconception New Knowledge Rectify

Author:Gordon Allport

“The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Mind Made Problem Answers Results Waste Evidence Argument Ideology Wasting Time Irrelevant Discouraging Assertion Mind Made Up

Author:William J. Clinton

“Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.”

Ifs Stills Enough Trump Lows Evidence American Politics Redundant Net Worth

Author:George Will

“I don't think about life everlasting. If something doesn't have scientific evidence to back it up, I don't believe it. I'm a straight shooter.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Evidence Don't Believe Everlasting Shooter Scientific Evidence

Author:Chuck Yeager

“I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.”

“There are lots of people who believe there may be at least some genetic component to procrastination, and even if there isn't, it seems to be the case that procrastination habits are often set relatively early in life (that's certainly the case with me). But I also think that there's lots of evidence that external tools can help quite a bit in getting people to stop procrastinating.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe May Helping Seems Bits Cases Habit Evidence Tools Procrastination Components Procrastinating

Author:James Surowiecki

“Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Shows Values Water Can Do Share Conversation Prove Evidence Argument Logic Importance Appeals Logical What If Oxygen Hydrogen Logical Arguments

Author:Sam Harris

“If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add weapons of mass destruction to this diabolical clockwork, and you have . . . a recipe for the fall of civilization.”

Ifs Religion Fall Worst Civilization Taste Weapons Mass Evidence Destruction Add Recipes Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Insufficient Clockwork Diabolical

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”

People Ifs Long Sometimes Enough Given Doubt Greater Evidence Trials Bored Boredom Civilisation Barbarism Alexandria

Book:Civilisation

Source: Civilisation

“There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.”

Ifs Thinking Real Light Turns Grows Causes Darkness Happenings Evidence Anticipation Persistent Refusal Turn-on Appearing

Author:Dorothy Thompson

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“I know friends of mine who have never changed their mind about anything in their lives, despite evidence from all directions. And I think if you can keep an open mind and some understanding, that helps you stay young.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Helping Young Understanding Changed Mines Evidence Despite Never Change Open Mind Keep An Open Mind

Author:Dick Van Dyke

Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe

“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Poor Rooms Wonder Understood Evidence Claims Accepted Abandon Soar Adequate Niche Ecological Sense Of Wonder Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The poor wretches have convinced themselves that they are going to be immortal and live for all time, by worshipping that crucified sophist and living under his laws...they receive these doctrines by tradition, without any definite evidence. So if any charlatan or trickster comes among them, he quickly acquires wealth by imposing upon these simple people.”

People Ifs Law Wealth Simple Poor Evidence Tradition Convinced Doctrine All Time Acquire Immortal Definite Imposing Charlatans Tricksters

Author:Lucian

“Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections.”

Ifs Universe Divine Evidence Argument Imperfection Atoms Venture Celestial Divine Power

Author:Lucretius

“If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.”

Ifs Believe Running Fiction Nice Risk Enlightenment Evidence Decent Buying Friendly Betray Virtuous Bishops

Author:Richard Dawkins

“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.”

Ifs Eye Failing Evidence

Book:Holy Sweat

Source: Holy Sweat

“It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.”

People Ifs Needs Hard Jobs Acting Support Evidence Resources Organization Profit Agents Managers Get Money Non Profit

Author:Sonja Sohn

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Ends Might Humanity Can Do Justice Dangerous Ought Cost Safe Devil Evidence Absolutes Sake Guides Trials Impulse Agreement Finding Yourself Dangerous Things Treacherous

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.”

People Ifs Millions Rich Middle Evidence Income Proportion Empirical Evidence

Author:Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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