Search in quotes: evidence

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about evolution, progress

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Quote by John Adams about state, things

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

Quote by George W. Bush

It just clicked: if the character had a nosebleed, it would be like a 'losing the virginity' thing, physical evidence like blood on the sheets. That was exactly the kind of image I'd been looking for.

Quote by Michael Chabon about blood, character, things

As in the public sphere, there is ample evidence that women can be as physically aggressive behind closed doors as men.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about public, man

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about man

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, question, society, man

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about power, truth

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Quote by Mary Ann Evans about opinion, nothing, man

If at first you don't succeed destroy all evidence that you ever tried.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about destruction

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

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about faith, knowledge, things

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Quote by Levi Strauss about objects, human imperfections

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

Quote by Leonard Cohen about poetry, life

The attack is the evidence of losing control.

Quote by Morihei Ueshiba about attack

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Quote by Jorge Amado about truth, eyes, things

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Quote by Emil Cioran about absurd, nothing, world