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Evidence9 quotes
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? — William James · 1896It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W.K. Clifford · 1877Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. — David Hume · 1748All 9 quotes →Beliefs2 quotes
It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W.K. Clifford · 1877A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. — David Hume · 1748Appearance vs. reality1 quote
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861Certainty1 quote
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? — William James · 1896Doubt and skepticism1 quote
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens · 1861Judgment1 quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Jumping to conclusions1 quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all of the evidence. It biases the judgement. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Reason1 quote
There are very few lovers of truth for truth-sake, even among those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it, loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. — John Locke · 1690Truth1 quote
There are very few lovers of truth for truth-sake, even among those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it, loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. — John Locke · 1690Unjustified beliefs1 quote
It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W.K. Clifford · 1877