Quote by Alison Weir Download Open image ““the weight of evidence ‘cannot convince those who do not wish to believe”” — Alison Weir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One of the simplest and yet most powerful ways we do so lies in how we frame the very question we ask of the… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence… — Paula Stokes Copy Share Image
“...what has the weight of evidence to one person does not necessarily have the weight of evidence to another.” — Mitch Glaser Copy Share Image
“The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.” — Linda Elder Richard Paul Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly — Socrates Copy Share Image
A mind unwilling to believe or even undesirous to be instructed, our weightiest evidence must ever fail to impress. It will insist on taking… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
“For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the only good reason to believe that something exists is if there is real evidence that it does.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
“The King ruled in consultation with his chief nobles, who fromed the nucleus of what was in effect a military aristocracy, whose power was… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a convent, and… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.” — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“But I wish you to know that, were I just Edward and you just Jane, I would prefer to marry you. We accord well… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.” — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
“face that journey again in the winter.” Arthur did not answer, and when she turned to look at him, she saw that” — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
