Facts are stubborn things. [ Smollett or Le Sage or Elliot ]
Positiveness is an evidence of poor judgment. [ Proverb ]
He passes sentence before he hears the evidence. [ Proverb ]
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. [ Kossuth ]
The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth.
Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of a man's own. [ Montaigne ]
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [ Bible ]
If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them. [ Tillotson ]
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older. [ Lichtenberg ]
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found. [ Bovee ]
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. [ George Eliot ]
No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced. [ Johnson ]
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. [ Hosea Ballou ]
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. [ Bovee ]
I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men. [ Emerson ]
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]
The word necessary
is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]