No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.
We must consider both the ultimate end and all clear sensory evidence, to which we refer our opinions; for otherwise everything will be full of uncertainty and confusion.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.
What evidence would you need to see to change your mind about this?
Every age manifests itself by some external evidence. In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers-it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.
I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.
No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.
Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I guess that was always kind of true, but now there's a lot more. We leave a deeper trail. Like a snail trail of our memories, you know? But it's not really about arousal. It's about artistic droppings.
The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles from off the Earth.
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.