Home / Topics / Evidence Quotes

Evidence Quotes

Browse 2987 quotes about Evidence.

Evidence Quotes

“A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”

Men Belief Wise Evidence Philosopher Proportion

Author:David

“The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.”

Knows Self Given Acceptance Humility Duty Evidence Delight Denial Beloved Proportion Repentance Our Love Self-denial

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.”

Self Matter Passion Interest Involved Evidence Concerned Prejudice Witness Proportion Probability Self Interest Marvellous

Author:Thomas Huxley

“People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.”

People Heart Self Quality Family Human Nature Sorrow Anxiety Conscious Evidence Intimacy Proportion Family Life Self Conscious Politeness Dazzling True Intimacy

Book:Armance

Source: Armance

“The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.”

People Way Should Sometimes Behavior Evidence Asking Institutions Population Proportion Admirable Deserving

Author:David Graeber

“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

“We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.”

Knows Whole Body Universe Know How Evidence Significant Proportion Excluded Caricatures Whole Truth

Book:The Fire in the Equations

Source: The Fire in the Equations

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

Men Mind Wisdom Religion Belief Knowledge Wise Atheism Evidence Proportion Humanist Wisest Man

Author:David Hume

“The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.”

People Hands Science Belief Knowledge Cases Trust Amount Authority Evidence Standing Majority Available Proportion Justify Overwhelming Factual Second Hand Polymaths

Book:Personal Knowledge

Source: Personal Knowledge