Circumstantial Quotes

23 quotes by 20 authors

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection… — George Santayana
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. — Henry David Thoreau
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without… — Jerome K. Jerome
The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many… — Peter Davenport
There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court… — Jean Ritchie
As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of… — George Washington
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence. — Alfred Wegener
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom. — Cai Guo-Qiang
All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone elseâ€™s poor decision making. — Joshua Ferris
The evidence for indicting immunisations for SIDS is circumstantial, but compelling. However, the keepers of the keys to medical-research funds are not interested in researching… — Frederick Douglass
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they… — Elisabeth Moss
Circumstantial evidence is evidence. — Bernard Goldberg
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. — Arthur Conan Doyle
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole
Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee… — Jorge Luis Borges
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very… — Jodi Picoult
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants… — Jorge Luis Borges
The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere. — Barton Gellman

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20 authors contributed a total of 23 Circumstantial Quotes as follows: