How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's…

Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon provided…

— Peter Medawar

“if a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity”

— Epicurus

“Thus we kept on like true idealists, rejecting the evidence of our senses”

— Henry David Thoreau

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

— Neville Goddard

“people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the…

— Diana Gabaldon

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

— Don DeLillo

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

— Adam Smith

“And in declaring true every theory that does not contravene the evidence of the senses, Epicurus does not blink the fact that the philosopher…

— Lucretius

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

— Anonymous

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

— John Calvin

“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen…

— Anne Brontë

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

— Hermann Hesse

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson