Best evidence & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”

Art Quality Virtue Industry Achievement Art Is Evidence Productions Proof Footsteps Insufficient

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.”

People Care Interest Sin Secret Virtue Taken Evidence Inspired Vices Gossip Consolation Neighbour Malice Untrue Verify

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as a virtue.”

Sometimes Faces Quality Virtue Evidence Conviction Contrary Quarters

Author:Jack McDevitt

“Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.”

Writing Mind Humans May Reason Suffering Found Virtue Produce Genius Evidence Performances Curiosity Appearance Folly Human Mind Manifest Tempted Repent Infirmity Inconsistency

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.”

Virtue Integrity Evidence

Author:Denis Diderot

“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'”

People World Needs Believe Wells Belief Religious Virtue Nice Doors Teaching Safe Evidence Extremism Extremist Oh Well Criticise

Author:Richard Dawkins

“One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.”

Ideas Feelings America Virtue Evidence Argument Mere Abandoned Speculation Bye Good Bye Predecessors

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.”

Men Stills Sometimes Christian Virtue Humility Pride Evidence Faults Observation Covered

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.”

Suffering Faith Religious Virtue Evidence Fruit Exceptional Faith And Patience

Author:John Calvin

“It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.”

Attitude Virtue Evidence Ill Consideration

Book:The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

Source: The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

“There's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals, which I'm certainly not unsympathetic to, because as I keep saying, I come from a human rights context. But there's a feminist critique of Muslim Arbitration Tribunals specifically, which says women are going to have their rights eroded by virtue of the fact of these courts are going to negotiate settlements and negotiate the dropping of criminal charges against men. There's not been any evidence of that taking place.”

Men Virtue Evidence Human Rights Feminist Critique Settlement Unsympathetic

Author:Sadakat Kadri

“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

“Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.”

Book Cases Virtue Evidence Proof Substance Originality Acclaim

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable'.”

Believe Lying Views Responsibility Accepting Moral Virtue Doubt Evidence Orthodoxy Weighing Moral Responsibility Scrutinize

Author:Thomas Huxley

“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.”

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.”

“Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is a paradise in and around you right now, and to be there you don't even have to make a move. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened. All potential experiences are within you already. You can open up to them at any time.”

Source: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

“Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.”

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