Quotes on “evidence”

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.