Quotes of: Sufficient-evidence Keyword

She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess of the people who had effected the raping to produce sufficient numbers of themselves who were sufficiently idle that they might begin to prote...

Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Selected Essays

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

A View of the Evidences of Christianity: In Three Parts

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Michael Shermer

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

Donald Rumsfeld

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Anthony Trollope

For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence.

William De Morgan

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

The Return of the Gods: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitations

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

Maya Lin

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

Thomas Reid

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...

Incriminating Evidence: The Collected Writings of Lydia Lunch

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Matthew Arnold

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Clifford D. Simak

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Peter Singer

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount of proof, which ordinarily satisfies an unprejudiced mind, beyond any reasonable doubt.

Simon Greenleaf

Many witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with other statements they made and also conflicted with the physical evidence. Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence.

Robert P. McCulloch

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

Robert P. McCulloch