620 Quotes About Evidence

Maybe the world isn't full of signs so much as it's full of people trying to use whatever evidence they can find to convince themselves of what they hope to be true.

The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.

It is a foolish judge who, before the evidence is presented, makes a judgement.

Logic stays true, wherever you may go,So logic never tells you where you live.

Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong decisions and less than desirable circumstances.

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence. We all suffer severely enough from the maintenance and support of false beliefs and the fatally wrong actions which they lead to, and the evil born when one such belief is entertained is great and wide.

Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.